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Marquis De Sade Quotes
Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Natures mandates. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Ive already told you: the only way to a womans heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Lusts passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Mans natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
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! - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in mans imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Religions are the cradles of despotism. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Sensual excess drives out pity in man. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
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. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. - Marquis De Sade Quotes
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