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 SADETo judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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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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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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 most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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