"What you call disorder is nothing else than……" — Marquis de Sade
"What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions."
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Marquis de Sade
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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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