In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
MARQUIS DE SADENever 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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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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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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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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