Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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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.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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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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