The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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.
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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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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