Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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 degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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