What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
MARQUIS DE SADEGet 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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When 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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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