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Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper they are incredibly feeble never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
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France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Lust's passion will be served it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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