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?
MARQUIS DE SADEWere 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?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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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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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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