Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADEVariety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADEAll men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
MARQUIS DE SADELet not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADEI write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat is more immoral than war?
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
MARQUIS DE SADEIn libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
MARQUIS DE SADESensual excess drives out pity in man.
MARQUIS DE SADESex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
MARQUIS DE SADEYour body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADEFear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhen I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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