The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEDestruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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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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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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What is more immoral than war?
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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