It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADEGood for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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