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Famous Marquis de Sade Quotes
“The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.”
“I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.”
“What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.”
“One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.”
“I want to be the victim of his errors.”
“The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.”
“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
“Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.”
“The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.”
“In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.”
“It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.”
“The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.”
“God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.”
“One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.”
“Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.”