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.
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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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