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" 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 - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. "
Competition
Us
Nature
" All universal moral principles are idle fancies. "
Universal
Moral
Idle
" 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. "
Dangerous
You
Country
" Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. "
Destruction
Nature
Like
" 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 to our individual organization. "
Nor
Happiness
Appreciate
" In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. "
Vice
Must
Know
" It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. "
Pain
Pleasure
Always
" It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. "
Others
Thought
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. "
Woman
Heart
Know
" Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. "
Ambition
Lust
Strength
" Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. "
Passion
Lust
Will
" 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! "
Thinking
You
Others
" No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. "
Mistress
See
Will
" One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. "
Blush
Too
Dangerous
" Religions are the cradles of despotism. "
Despotism
Religions
" Sensual excess drives out pity in man. "
Out
Man
Drives
" She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. "
She
Flower
Spring
" Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. "
Liberty
Expense
Order
" The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. "
God
Mankind
Idea
" 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? "
Everything
Joy
Imagination
" The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. "
Beautiful
Her
Motion
" 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. "
Pleasure
Pain
Never
" They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. "
Lights
Torch
Philosophy
" Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. "
Two
Lust
Most
" Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. "
Body
Church
Fitness
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