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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.

Marquis de Sade

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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Arduous Immediately Painful Service Slightest
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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Act Bound Dirtier Dirty Element Give More Pleasurable Pleasure
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Come Kind Object Offer Pleasure Profanation Sacrilege Worship
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Beyond Border Entice Let Principle Share Zeal
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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Altogether Civilization Cruelty Energy Man Simply Vice Virtue
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Deviation Doubt Mere Reason Stop Support Uproot Vanquish
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Appaling Bond Devised Discomfort Horror Humankind Loathsome Most
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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Along Already Heart Sure Told Torment Woman
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Cause Misfortune Mode Other Through
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Between Connection Daith Immediate Understanding
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
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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Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Everything Happy Isdiscrimately Let Ourselves Passion Suggest

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