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 SADECruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Were 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?
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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