God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADEI 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.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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