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 SADEBetween understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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.
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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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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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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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