It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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