The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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