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 SADEThat everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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The 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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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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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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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
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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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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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