I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhen 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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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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