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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!

Marquis de Sade

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Read Shell
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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Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
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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Apparent Capable Certain Cruel Extreme Feeling Length Rather Seem Soul Strong Unconcern
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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Chocked Crime Imbecile Spare Speak World
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Do Dong Here Image Like Only
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Arise Imagination Pleasure Sharp
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?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
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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Always Beauty Exceptional Extraordinary Imagination Prefer Simple Thing
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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Being Contradict Inner Made Reflection Result Think Way Wish
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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Concern Day Fatal Life Living Midst Moment Pity Themselves Thread Through
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Cradle Religion
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Capacity Each Endowed Feeling Kindly Nature Other Squander

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