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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

Marquis de Sade

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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Come Kind Object Offer Pleasure Profanation Sacrilege Worship
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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Desire Greater More Object One Pleasure Surrender Violence
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Happiness Ideal Imagination Work
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
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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Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
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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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
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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Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure
Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Amongst Boundary Demonstrate Frightful Nature
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted,
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Deviation Doubt Mere Reason Stop Support Uproot Vanquish
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Error Victim Want
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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Alone Beg Exist Human Love Now Reason Resemble Simply Tell Whether
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Anarchy Century Compare Country Dangerous Inhabit Legalism Like Love Passion Strongest
I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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