Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEDestruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
MARQUIS DE SADESexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADEReligions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
MARQUIS DE SADEIs it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADECan we become other than what we are?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEI want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADEWe are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADEI assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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