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Are your convictions so fragi...

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

You say that my way of thinki...

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. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

The man who alters his way of...

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

Cruelty, very far from being ...

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

Never lose sight of the fact ...

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's 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 219 quotes

Happiness is ideal, it is the...

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

One is never so dangerous whe...

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

There is no God, Nature suffi...

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

They declaim against the pass...

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

Lust is to the other passions...

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 219 quotes

In order to know virtue, we m...

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

Nature, who for the perfect m...

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 219 quotes

'Til the infallibility of hum...

'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 219 quotes

No lover, if he be of good fa...

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 219 quotes

'Sex' is as important as eati...

'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 219 quotes

The imagination is the spur o...

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?

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

My manner of thinking, so you...

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 219 quotes

All universal moral principle...

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

The ultimate triumph of philo...

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

The primary and most beautifu...

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.

Marquis De Sade 219 quotes

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