It 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Good 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.
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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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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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For 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.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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