My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
MARQUIS DE SADEI 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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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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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.
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When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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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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