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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
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...Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.
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Only two things are required to accredit an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.
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It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.
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Those who are unhappy clutch at shadows, and to give themselves an enjoyment that truth refuses them, they artfully bring into being all sorts of illusions.
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This monster was outfitted with faculties so gigantic that even the broadest thoroughfares would still have appeared too narrow for him.
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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.
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It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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It has been estimated that more than 50 million individuals have lost their lives to wars and religious massacres. Is there even one among them worth the blood of a single bird?
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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...
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The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
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The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the rest of my life shall by far surpass the extravagances of my youth.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
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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.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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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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One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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