Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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What is more immoral than war?
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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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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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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