The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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