Book: The 120 days of Sodom

As often happens in debauchery, a woman who has the same shortcomings as a man likes him less than one who is full of virtue. One behaves like him, the other is horrified by his actions - and this is precisely what is desired and attracts him.

There are times when nature shows itself so restive that the delights that cause us the greatest pleasure cannot snatch anything from it.

Crime is one of the manifestations of nature, the way it kills people.

Nature needs both crime and virtue.

Indeed, there are situations when neither age, nor beauty, nor virtue matters, but everything depends on a whim or on a special tact, which is often possessed by the beauty of autumn, which conquers a younger spring with its talents, which does not have this experience.

Abomination is the delight of some souls.

If the offense has the finesse inherent virtue, it does not look like it is sometimes high and, to some extent, magnificent, surpassing in attractiveness cosseted and dull virtue?

Nothing inspires like the first unpunished crime.

... there is no fault that is not there lover.

Vice is born of satiety, and the sin is born a crime.

The strongest always finds just what little considers to be unfair.

How can you be happy if you can satisfy yourself every moment. Happiness consists not in the enjoyment, and the desire; it means to break all barriers on the way to the fulfillment of a wish.