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
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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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