Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
MARQUIS DE SADENature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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