The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEAll universal moral principles are idle fancies.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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