There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhy do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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 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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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