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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Paris
France
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
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Creation
Nature
Reality
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Hence
Destruction

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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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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. 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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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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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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The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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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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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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Man's natural character is to imitate that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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