It is only by enlarging the scope of ones tastes and ones fantasies by sacrificing everything to pleasure that the unfortunate individual called Man thrown despite himself into this sad world can succeed in gathering a few roses among lifes thorns
Marquis De Sade
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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
- Marquis De Sade