Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
MARQUIS DE SADEDon’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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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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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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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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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
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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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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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Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
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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.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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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 completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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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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