Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADE
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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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