Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADECan we become other than what we are?
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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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