In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
MARQUIS DE SADESensual excess drives out pity in man.
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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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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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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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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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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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