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.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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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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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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