There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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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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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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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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.
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What is more immoral than war?
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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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