Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
MARQUIS DE SADEEvery principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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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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