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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.

Marquis de Sade

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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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Allow Appetite Drink Eat False Important Modesty Ought Restrain Satisfy Sex
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Balance Indulgence Pan Perfect Rather Routine Sex Symmetry
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Fancy Moral Principle Universal
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
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
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Body Children Deform Enemy Into Late Turn Twenty Women Years
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
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
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
We monsters are necessary to nature also.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Also Monster Nature Necessary
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Defym Care Either Fear Fig God Now Spiteful Thunderbolt
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

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