Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADEImperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I’ll be damned if I ever change.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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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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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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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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