If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
MARQUIS DE SADEAll universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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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.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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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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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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