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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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