Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
MARQUIS DE SADELove Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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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.
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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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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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