Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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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.
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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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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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