A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADEWe are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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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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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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