Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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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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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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