How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADEChimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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