Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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