What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
MARQUIS DE SADEWere he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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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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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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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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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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