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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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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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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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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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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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