The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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