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 SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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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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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