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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Marquis de Sade

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Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice

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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Body Children Deform Enemy Into Late Turn Twenty Women Years
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Exclusive Less May never Possession Slave Unjust Woman
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Country Crime Criminal Essential Horror Murder Necessary Republican State Tolerate
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Concern Consequently Enjoyment Much Object Often Own Serve Themselves
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will

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