Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
MARQUIS DE SADENo kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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