Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADEThread 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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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What is more immoral than war?
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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