Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
MARQUIS DE SADEThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe monsters are necessary to nature also.
MARQUIS DE SADEDestruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEDon’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
MARQUIS DE SADENo kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADEAt all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
MARQUIS DE SADEAll universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat 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.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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