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If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.


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MARQUIS DE SADE The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but...
MARQUIS DE SADE All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues use...
MARQUIS DE SADE How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot t...
MARQUIS DE SADE Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strengt...
MARQUIS DE SADE Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once...
MARQUIS DE SADE The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
MARQUIS DE SADE Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
MARQUIS DE SADE Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
MARQUIS DE SADE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
MARQUIS DE SADE I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
MARQUIS DE SADE So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
MARQUIS DE SADE Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
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