If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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