Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADECertain 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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