I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
MARQUIS DE SADEDestruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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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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Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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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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There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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