According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
MARQUIS DE SADEBetween understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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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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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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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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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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