In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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