For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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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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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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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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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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