Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADEOne must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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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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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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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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