It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADEI 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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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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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.
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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 pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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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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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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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