All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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What is more immoral than war?
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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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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