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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
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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 born of fear and egoism that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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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 his insufficiency?
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Lust's passion will be served it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.
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