Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
MARQUIS DE SADESocial order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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