Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
MARQUIS DE SADEChimerical 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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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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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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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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