The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADEIf Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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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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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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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.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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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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