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.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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