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"Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust."
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"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."

"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."

"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."

"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful."

"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."

"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."

"Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands."

"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."
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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."

"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."

"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."

"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
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