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 SADEHappiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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