Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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