The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness 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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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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