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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.

Marquis de Sade

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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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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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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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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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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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