Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADEAnything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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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!
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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