In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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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, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all.Marquis De Sade
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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