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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.

Marquis de Sade

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Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
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
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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Crime Delightful Hundredfold Immolate Multiply New Object Turn World
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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Defect Less Lovable May More Older Resound Success
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Destructive Directly Energy Feed Nature New None Nothing Outgrace Vigor Weaken Wrecking
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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Born Character Courage Enslaving Fear Fellow Fool Formed Get Head Men Nothing Once Philosophy Simple Stoicism Weak Weakness
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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Always Beauty Exceptional Extraordinary Imagination Prefer Simple Thing
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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Act Bound Dirtier Dirty Element Give More Pleasurable Pleasure
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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Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
Hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born.
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Abregantion Anticipate Cause Desire Enable Exactness Naught Prompt Recommend
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Cruel Discretion Display Employ Force Law Let Long Loud Obliged Opinion Ourselves Privacy Public Remain Silence Some Today
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Age Best Corrupt Other Policy Utterly
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way

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