The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE
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.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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