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 SADEThe infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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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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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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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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What is more immoral than war?
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No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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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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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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