I leave you 75 Famous phrases of the Marquis de Sade , Eighteenth-century French aristocrat , A philosopher and one of the most controversial writers in history.
The Marquis de Sade was especially remembered for his ideas Revolutionary in favor of sexual debauchery and other practices considered despicable in the France of his time.
In his works, the marquis mixes pornography, violence and crime, with a philosophical discourse for freedom and against morality, religion and the law.
His scandalous ideas and his atypical behavior are responsible for the appearance of the terms"sadism"and"sadistic".
In 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte Ordered his imprisonment for the works"Justine"and"Juliette", that were attributed to the Marquis in spite of having been Published anonymously.
After a long period imprisoned in an asylum, the Marquis de Sade would die in 1814. Throughout his life, the Marquis passed A total of 32 years in prison, where he wrote many of his works.
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In the following quotes you can check the strong character and determination of such extravagant French celebrity.
No act of possession should be exercised upon a free soul.
The body is the temple where nature asks to be venerated.
Happiness is ideal and utopian, it is the work of our imagination.
The possession of a woman is as unjust as the possession of slaves.
Kill me or accept me as I am, because I will never change.
Truth arouses less imagination than fiction.
Love is stronger than pride.
It is not in my power to change as I am. And if he were, he would not.
Consciousness is not the voice of nature, but of prejudice.
The luckiest person is one who has more means to satisfy his cravings.
The social order in exchange for freedom is not a good deal.
Religions are the cradle of despotism.
The idea of God is the only evil that I can not forgive humanity.
Ignorance and fear are the basis of every religion.
Do not lose sight of the fact that man's happiness lies in his imagination, and he can not get it if he does not satisfy his whims.
The human being is as guilty of following his impulses as the Nile is of the floods or the sea of the waves.
Destruction, and therefore creation, is one of the mandates of nature.
Most people fight against the passions without stopping to think that it is their retrograde philosophy that enlivens them.
Is there anything more immoral than war?
Cruelty, far from being a vice, is the first feeling that nature infuses us.
Sex is as important as eating or drinking, and we must satisfy this appetite with as few restrictions and false decorum as the others.
Judging from the knowledge exposed by theologians, we can only conclude that God created the majority of men simply to cram the
hell.
Universal moral principles are but useless whims.
The past motivates me, the present excites me and I am not afraid of the future.
Sex without pain is like food without taste.
It is not my way of thinking what has brought me my misfortunes, but the way of thinking of others.
The passions of lust are inexorable. Lust demands, provokes and tyrannizes.
To know virtue, we must first become familiar with vice.
Can we become someone different from who we are?
The only way to conquer a woman's heart is through torment. I do not know another so sure.
If God killed his own son like a calf, I shudder to think what he would do to me.
Only through pain can pleasure be attained.
Sexual pleasure is the passion that governs the rest, but in which all are united.
Lust is to the rest of passions what the nervous fluid to life. Ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge... all are based on the
lust.
If the laws remain as before, let us be discreet; Strong opinions compel us to be so. But in privacy and silence, let's be
Ourselves to compensate for the cruel chastity that we are forced to manifest in public.
The natural character of man leads him to imitate his loved ones as well as possible. This is how I earned my own
Misfortunes
Any joy diminishes when shared with other people.
Are laws that inhibit passions not dangerous? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of greater legalism of any country. So will see
As the greatest actions appear only when the laws perish.
Happiness is not achieved with vice or with virtue, but with the way we understand each other and with the decisions we make
In pursuit of the conformation of our own being.
Imagination is the detonator of all pleasures. It all depends on the imagination. Is it not from the imagination from which happiness is born and
The most intense pleasures?
There is no truer feeling than pain. Its effect is accurate and reliable, it never deceives, as does the pleasure that women pretend and
They seldom feel.
Are wars more than the means by which a nation is nourished, strengthened and protected?
Variety and the multitude are the most powerful vehicles of lust.
No man, if he is in good faith and sincere, would deny that he prefers his lover to die to be unfaithful to him.
The excess of sensuality causes the grief to leave the man.
There is no god, nature is enough without an author.
The greatest triumph of philosophy would be to clarify the way in which Providence seeks to end the plans it has for man.
Until someone shows me the infallibility of human trials, I will demand the abolition of the death penalty.
Nature, which in order to maintain the laws of its equilibrium sometimes requires vices and virtues, impels us according to its demands.
Conversations, like certain parts of the anatomy, always flow better when lubricated.
My thinking, they say, is absolutely reprehensible. Do you think I care?
There is no greater wretch than he who changes his way of thinking to please the rest.
Fuck! Is a man also expected to be a gentleman when he is sexually aroused?
Some people seem cruel to others, but sometimes it is simply the only way they know to take care of others and feel more strongly.
If it is the obscene which gives pleasure to lust, then the more obscenity, the more pleasure there must be.
I do not know what the heart is. I only use such a word to refer to the weaknesses of the mind.
We must apply violence to the object of our desire. Thus, when surrendered, the pleasure will be greater.
True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue does not satisfy any of them.
I've been in hell. You have only read about it.
Nature has bestowed upon every human kindly feelings that should not be wasted on others.
I assumed that everything must yield to my desires, that the whole universe should respond to my whims and that I had the right to satisfy them
Will.
I hope the rest of my life will overcome the extravagances of my youth.
The impossibility of enraging nature is the greatest anguish that the human being can feel.
When someone has had enough of something is because they have already had too much.
Let us indiscriminately indulge ourselves in what our passions ask for, and so we will always be happy.
My passions, concentrated in a single point, resemble the rays of the sun concentrated by a magnifying glass: the two are on fire immediately
To any object in its path.
In an age of absolute corruption, the best attitude is to do what others do.
Beauty is something simple, while ugliness is something exceptional.
It is proven that cruelty, horror and fear are what pleasure seeks to fornicate.
Sex must be a perfect balance between pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than a delight.
Monsters are also needed in nature.
Each principle is a judgment, each judgment is the result of an experience, and experience is only achieved through the exercise of the senses.
It is not the opinions or vices of the individual that damages a state, but the behavior of public figures.
Crime is the soul of lust. What would be pleasure without crime? It is not wildness that excites us, but evil.
Beautiful women should only worry about pleasure, not about procreation.