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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Marquis de Sade

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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
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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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
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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Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Creature Delicate Delight Imagination Moment Out Pleasure Resist Single Whole World
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Acquire Every Principle Excercise Experience Judgement Outcome Sense
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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Appear Hope Human Misfortune Nothingless Race Return Ridiculous Tournament
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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Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Alter Fool Man Other Suit Think Way
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation
Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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Any Enjoyment Share Weekend
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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Also Monster Nature Necessary
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?
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Conviction Devil Fragile God Illusory Opposition Presence Reveal Stand
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing

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