Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
MARQUIS DE SADEPregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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If 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?
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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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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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