If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What is more immoral than war?
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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