Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
MARQUIS DE SADEIf Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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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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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about 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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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
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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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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
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