Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
MARQUIS DE SADEThe idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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