My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
MARQUIS DE SADEGod strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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