Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
MARQUIS DE SADEAll universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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