Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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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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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Evil 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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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