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.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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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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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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