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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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