I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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What is more immoral than war?
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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