Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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