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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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