For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADESo much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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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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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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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 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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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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