All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADEBehold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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