So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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