Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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