Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
MARQUIS DE SADELust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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