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.
MARQUIS DE SADEI have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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According 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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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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