Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat is more immoral than war?
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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What is more immoral than war?
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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 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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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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