The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADEMy manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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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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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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