Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
MARQUIS DE SADEDo not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Can we become other than what we are?
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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