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.
MARQUIS DE SADEEvil 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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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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