It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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