Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADEDon’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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 the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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