In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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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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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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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