The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADECruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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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.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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.
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The primary and most beautiful of nature’s qualities is motion
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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