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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.

Marquis de Sade

A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Become Enemy Expect Laugh Man Necessarily Prejudice Reason Scorn
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong

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