In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The 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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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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