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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

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• The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

  Marquis de Sade

  Stars, Majority, Idiot

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• There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

  Marquis de Sade

  Wise, Nature, Atheism

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• Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

  Marquis de Sade

  Medicine, Mistress, Needs

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• Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

  Marquis de Sade

  Imagination, Fiction, Literature

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• I want to be the victim of his errors.

  Marquis de Sade

  Errors, Want, Victim

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

  Marquis de Sade

  Peace, War, Principles

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• Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, Mean, Men

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

  Marquis de Sade

  Evil, Half, Littles

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• You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

  Marquis de Sade

  People, Ridiculous

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• Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

  Marquis de Sade

  Exercise, Principles, Outcomes

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• Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

  Marquis de Sade

  Girl, Progress, Vices

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• Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

  Marquis de Sade

  Two, Voice, Command

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Mean, Joy

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

  Marquis de Sade

  Jesus, Ambition, Tyrants

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

  Marquis de Sade

  Marriage, Degradation, Horror

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

  Marquis de Sade

  Government, Skills, Answers

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Country, Passion, Law

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

  Marquis de Sade

  Eye, Punishment, Humanity

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Laughing, Enemy

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

  Marquis de Sade

  Vices, Firsts, Cruelty

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• Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

  Marquis de Sade

  Prejudice, Opinion, Sole

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

  Marquis de Sade

  Earth, May, Rewards

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• At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

  Marquis de Sade

  Simple, Law, Age

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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