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?
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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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