I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us 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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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