All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
From Marquis de Sade
'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 modesty as the other.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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.
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 is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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 imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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