The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
MARQUIS DE SADEEvery 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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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