black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

Marquis de Sade

Related Topics

Flood Follow Govern Gutter Impulse Primitive Sea Waves

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Exclusive Less May never Possession Slave Unjust Woman
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 SADE

Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
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?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Conviction Devil Fragile God Illusory Opposition Presence Reveal Stand
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Consequently Enjoyment Much Object Often Own Serve Themselves
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cruel Discretion Display Employ Force Law Let Long Loud Obliged Opinion Ourselves Privacy Public Remain Silence Some Today
What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Fancy Moral Principle Universal
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Further God Inspire Perversion Plunge Present Satan Smoke Something Unique
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes