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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.

Love Is Stronger Than Pride

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Sex without pain is like food without taste

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ...

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

My vengeance needs blood.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Can we become other than what we are?

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

One has always had too much when one has had enough

It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think ...

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

This monster was outfitted with faculties so gigantic that even the broadest thoroughfares would still have appeared too narrow for him.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

A little less vice is virtuousness in a very vicious heart

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

Only two things are required to accredit
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

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.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

I want to be the victim of his errors.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

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!

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them.

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

What is more immoral than war?

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

The greatest pleasures are born of conquered repugnancies.

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

life is a bitch so enjoy it ;p

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

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.

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.

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness.

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.