Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe 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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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