“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. He is best known for his erotic novels, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting bizarre sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life; eleven years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille) a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. Many of his works were written in prison. The term "sadism" is derived from his name. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade
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“The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.”
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“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
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“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
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“Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and rid...”
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“One would have to lose one's wits to believe in a God, and to become a complete imbecile to adore Him.”
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“and how can you be happy when you can find satisfaction at any moment? It is not in pleasure that happiness consists, it is in desire – it is in breaking the chains that hold back this desir...”
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“If they who are appointed to instruct and rule over men had wisdom and virtue themselves, realities, and not fantasies, would enable them to govern better; but scoundrels, quacksalvers, ambi...”
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“'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.”
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“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 w...”
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“Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the law...”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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“Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.”
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“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”
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“They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.”
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“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 in...”
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“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...”
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“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”
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“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.”
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“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”
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