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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.

Marquis de Sade

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Engage One Sexual Want
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
MARQUIS DE SADE

Love Pride Stronger
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
MARQUIS DE SADE

Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
We monsters are necessary to nature also.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Also Monster Nature Necessary
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame

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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