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.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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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 idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.
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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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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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