Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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If 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.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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