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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 Sade

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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.
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Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way
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
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Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
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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Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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All Complete Lot Submissiveness
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Ambition Associate Christ Country Divine Great Jesus People Peron Place Rogues Thought Tyrant
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
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.
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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite

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