Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt 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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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for 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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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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