I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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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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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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!
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I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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