Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADEEven 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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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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