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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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