The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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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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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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