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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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