I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
MARQUIS DE SADEIn order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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