Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
MARQUIS DE SADEIf the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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