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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

Marquis de Sade

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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Appear Hope Human Misfortune Nothingless Race Return Ridiculous Tournament
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Exclusive Less May never Possession Slave Unjust Woman
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Gratify Happiness Imaginary None Procedure Sense Virtue
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Act Author Forget Inframie Naught Opinion Prejudice Qualified Sole
Anything 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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Damage Darken Event Figure Charm Hang Health Husband Mood Pregnancy Uncertainty
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Condemned Debility Design Enjoy Exercise Incoontestably Man More Nature Prove Strength Women Worse
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Complete Every Majority Pop Respect Star
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Batten Consume Immolate Lamb Strong Upon Victim Weal Wolves
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
MARQUIS DE SADE

Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer

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