What is more immoral than war?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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