Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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