No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?
Marquis de Sade in Aline et Valcour
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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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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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...
Marquis de Sade in Justine
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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