The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere 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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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We 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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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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What is more immoral than war?
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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 are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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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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