A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
MARQUIS DE SADEWhat crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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Thread 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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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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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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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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