To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
MARQUIS DE SADEI want to be the victim of his errors.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.
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I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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