All Marquis de Sade Quotes
Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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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.
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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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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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