Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
MARQUIS DE SADEDeep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
MARQUIS DE SADEIn libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
MARQUIS DE SADEOh, 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!
MARQUIS DE SADEThe majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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?
MARQUIS DE SADEIn order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADEHow delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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.
MARQUIS DE SADEYou say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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