The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
MARQUIS DE SADEAnd if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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