Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
MARQUIS DE SADEBeauty 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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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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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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Chimerical 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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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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