Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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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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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 rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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