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Marquis de Sade has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those…
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Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
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Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,…
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes…
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