Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
MARQUIS DE SADEIn an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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What is more immoral than war?
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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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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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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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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