Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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