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 SADEThere is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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