It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
MARQUIS DE SADEHow delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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