The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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