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.
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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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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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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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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