For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADELove Is Stronger Than Pride
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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What is more immoral than war?
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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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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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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