Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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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Religions are the cradles of 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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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Are 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?
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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