The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADELove Is Stronger Than Pride
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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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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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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