French - Novelist | June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis de Sade
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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.
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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.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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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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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.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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