What is more immoral than war?
MARQUIS DE SADEIf Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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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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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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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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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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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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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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