In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADEAre your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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 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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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