Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
MARQUIS DE SADEPregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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