The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEPrejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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