Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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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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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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