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Cannot Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
- In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly…
- The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal…
- 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…
- 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…
- The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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