Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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For 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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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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There 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.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess 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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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You 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.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Pregnancies 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.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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