The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEVariety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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