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.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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All 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.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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