According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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