Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
MARQUIS DE SADEConversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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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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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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