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Marquis de Sade Quotes: Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
         

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.


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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.



It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.



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.

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.



Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.



Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.



In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.



My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.



Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.



Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.



One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.





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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.



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We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.



I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me.

I get has been great. It has opened so many doors for me.



Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.



Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.



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This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.



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Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.



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When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.




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