For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADESex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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