The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
MARQUIS DE SADESex without pain is like food without taste
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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