What is more immoral than war?
MARQUIS DE SADESocial order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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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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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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