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Men Quotes by Marquis de Sade
- For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
- Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
- I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of…
- Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession…
- The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
- Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is…
- Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
- 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…
- 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…
- The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
- What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,…
- The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed…
- It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown…
- Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.…
- 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…
- The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
- The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
- To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing but a weakness…
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