There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADEWolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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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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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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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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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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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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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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