Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
MARQUIS DE SADEAccording to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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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?
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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