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 SADEMy manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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