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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.

Marquis de Sade

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What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Concern Consequently Enjoyment Much Object Often Own Serve Themselves
Can we become other than what we are?
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Allow Ask Become Desire Other
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Ask Body Church Nature Reverence
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Deviation Doubt Mere Reason Stop Support Uproot Vanquish
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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Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
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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Application Conflict Contradiction Forge Interest Law Perpetual Personal Universal

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