The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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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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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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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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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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