Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADELet us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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