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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.

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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Adopt Food Indeed Manner Other People Poor Suit Think
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Capacity Each Endowed Feeling Kindly Nature Other Squander
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Cradle Religion
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Bargain Expense Hardly Liberty Order Social
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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Arter Behaviour Figure Harmful Individual Opinion Public State Vice
That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Around Attention Care Every Everything Man Think Torniacate Tyrant Utter Want
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Creation Destructive Hence Mandate Nature
The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Beneath Blood Feel Flow Hell Man Read Young
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Crime Debauchery Excite Lust Pleasure Soul
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Beautiful Beginning Bestically Conspiracy Intigrel Novel Plot Priest Say Techwrous Thick
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Crime Excite Happiness Only Thing
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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Active Impression Keener Kind More Pain Sensation Unmistakable
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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Aesthetic Again Change Choleric Dissolute Everything Extreme Imagination Imperious Irascible Nutshell

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