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?
MARQUIS DE SADEOne is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man’s imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Can we become other than what we are?
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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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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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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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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