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?
MARQUIS DE SADEThe horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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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.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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