Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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 debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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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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