We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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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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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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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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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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