Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
MARQUIS DE SADEIf God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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