Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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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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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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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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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?
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Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy!
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We devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
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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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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws.
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Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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