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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

Marquis de Sade

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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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Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice
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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Assemble Concentrated Glass Immediate Magnifying Passion Point Ray Resemble Single Way
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Bargain Expense Hardly Liberty Order Social
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Love Pride Stronger
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
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Appaling Bond Devised Discomfort Horror Humankind Loathsome Most
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Act Engage One Sexual Want
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Come Kind Object Offer Pleasure Profanation Sacrilege Worship
A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Demand Lust Militate Passion Serve Tyrannize
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Anarchy Century Compare Country Dangerous Inhabit Legalism Like Love Passion Strongest
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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