"Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our……" — Marquis de Sade
"Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice."
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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
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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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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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