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Marquis de Sade's Profile

Brief about Marquis de Sade: By info that we know Marquis de Sade was born at 1970-01-01. And also Marquis de Sade is French Novelist.

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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Tags: Lust, Powerful, Variety

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

Tags: Body, Fitness, Nature

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Tags: Afraid, Save, Why

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Tags: Excess, Pity, Sensual

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.

Tags: Achieve, Light, Philosophy

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Tags: Against, Flame, Philosophy

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Tags: Death, Human, Shall

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Tags: Despotism, Religions

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Tags: Far, Less, Truth

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.

Tags: Life, Revenge, Strength

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.

Tags: Character, Others, Possible

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Tags: Flower, Sometimes, Spring

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.

Tags: Opinion, Silence, Today

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Tags: Doubt, Nature, Passion

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.

Tags: Cannot, Human, Lose

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.

Tags: Beautiful, Her, Nature

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Tags: Nature, Perfect, Sometimes

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

Tags: Care, Fool, Thinking

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.

Tags: Heart, Path, Woman

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

Tags: Pain, Pleasure
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