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Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
French Novelist
Born: Jun 2, 1740
Died: Dec 2, 1814
Cannot God Imagination Man Nature You
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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. Marquis de Sade
Sex Drinking Important Satisfied Other Ought Eating Restraint Allow False False Modesty Little Modesty Appetite
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. Marquis de Sade
Liberty Expense Order Social Bargain Social Order Hardly
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. Marquis de Sade
Life Strength Revenge Fluid Nervous Cruelty Ambition Lust Other Supports Passions Lends Avarice Them Founded
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. Marquis de Sade
You Woman Heart Path Other Way Torment Only Along Know Sure None
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. Marquis de Sade
Dangerous Old Too Shame Never Than Blush Grown
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. Marquis de Sade
Moral Moral Principles Principles Idle Fancy Universal
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade
Happiness Work Imagination Ideal
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. Marquis de Sade
Faith Good Will Lover Would See He Sincere Dead Mistress His Deny Than Unfaithful Prefer Good Faith
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. Marquis de Sade
God Sole Wrong Idea Forgive Cannot Which Mankind
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. Marquis de Sade
Death Me Penalty Abolition Shall Demand Judgements Proved Been Infallibility Human
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. Marquis de Sade
Truth Imagination Than Fiction Far Far Less Less
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. Marquis de Sade
Beautiful Nature Most Beautiful Crimes Only Simply Primary Most Qualities She Motion Perpetual Times Which Means Her Consequence
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. Marquis de Sade
Today Silence Privacy Long Ourselves Some Laws Obliged Remain Chastity Cruel Employ Forces Opinion Discretion Loud Public Us Display Let Us Compensate
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. Marquis de Sade
Nature Destruction Creation Like Mandates Hence
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. Marquis de Sade
God Judge Men Hell Must Simply Most Conclude Created Theologians View Notions
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. Marquis de Sade
Faith Understanding Immediate Must Between Subsist Connections
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. Marquis de Sade
Tyrants Kings Afraid Why Save
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. Marquis de Sade
Character Man Natural Imitate Earned Others Imitating Possible Only Misfortunes He Person Closely Vices Sensitive Loves Resemble Whom
Religions are the cradles of despotism. Marquis de Sade
Despotism Religions
Sensual excess drives out pity in man. Marquis de Sade
Man Out Excess Drives Pity Sensual
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? Marquis de Sade
Nation Whereby Anything Means Nourished Wars Strengthened
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. Marquis de Sade
Man Light Achieve Philosophy Ways Would Would-Be Triumph Cast Mysterious Ultimate Providence Moves Which Designs

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