Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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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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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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