For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
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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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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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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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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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What is more immoral than war?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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