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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis de Sade
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Marquis de Sade
Age: 74 †
Born: 1740
Born: June 2
Died: 1814
Died: December 2
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Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
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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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Can we become other than what we are?
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours not a single creature resists us, 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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Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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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 impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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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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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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