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.
MARQUIS DE SADEHappiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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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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