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Marquis de Sade

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


— Marquis de Sade


#kings #save #tyrants #weeps #why

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.


— Marquis de Sade


#excess #man #out #pity #sensual

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.


— Marquis de Sade


#forgive #god #i #idea #mankind

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


— Marquis de Sade


#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

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


— Marquis de Sade


#been #death #demand #human #i

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


#already #heart #i #know #none

Religions are the cradles of despotism.


— Marquis de Sade


#religions

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.


— Marquis de Sade


#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

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.


— Marquis de Sade


#cast #designs #light #man #moves

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.


— Marquis de Sade


#far less #fiction #imagination #less #than






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Alternating title usage indicates that titular hierarchy (below duc et pair) was notional; theoretically the marquis title was granted to noblemen owning several countships but its use by men of dubious lineage caused its disrepute. He was arrested there and imprisoned in the Château de Vincennes. Similarly Camille Paglia argued that Sade can be best understood as a satirist responding "point by point" to Rousseau's claims that society inhibits and corrupts mankind's innate goodness: Sade wrote in the aftermath of the French Revolution when Rousseauist Jacobins instituted the bloody Reign of Terror.

Donatien Alphonse François Marquis de Sade (French: [maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat revolutionary politician philosopher and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. He was a proponent of extreme freedom unrestrained by morality religion or law. During the French Revolution he was an elected delegate to the National Convention.

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