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Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments.

Marquis de Sade

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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Lust Most Multiply Powerful Variety Vehicle
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Command Day Nature Other Two Voice
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cradle Religion
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Breed Nothing Pleasure
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Arrive Pain Pleasure Way
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!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Approve Care Manner Support Think
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Amuse Characteristics Degradation Delight Please Plunge Punuish Stae
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Another Beautiful Frightful Hate Man Mirror Same See
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Age All Apparent Century Connection Despotism Every Infinitely Religion Time
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
I want to be the victim of his errors.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Error Victim Want
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

According Arbitrarily Born Class Free Grant Hand Legitimate Lose Men Posses Principle Sex Sight
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Credit Miracle Mountebank Number Require Thing Two Win Women
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Anything Beyond Either God Grasp Human Illusion Instance Believe Limit Mind Other Two

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