If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADEConscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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