Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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