The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADEFor the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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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.
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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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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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