Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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 manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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