Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADEDeep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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