Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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