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 laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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What is more immoral than war?
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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