What is more immoral than war?
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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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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