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- One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
- If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
- In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly…
- Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the…
- For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
- What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder…
- Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false…
- Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general…
- Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature,…
- Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should…
- Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession…
- Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends…
- It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
- The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the…
- Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant…
- Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
- Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
- All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost…
- Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this…
- What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you,…
- It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown…
- Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul,…
- Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the…
- One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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