In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADEPregnancies 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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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