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.

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.

Marquis De Sade

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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Marquis De Sade

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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!

Marquis De Sade

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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.

Marquis De Sade

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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis De Sade

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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.

Marquis De Sade

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Lust quotes

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis De Sade

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

Marquis De Sade

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

Marquis De Sade

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Vice quotes

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.

Marquis De Sade

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Marquis De Sade

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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Marquis De Sade

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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

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