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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!
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
Marquis De Sade
Donatien Alphonse François Sade
Comte de Sade
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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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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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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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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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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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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