It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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