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• In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

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• When atheism wants martyrs, let it say so and my blood will be ready.

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• Far from being a vice, cruelty is the primary feeling that nature imprints in us. The infant breaks its rattle, bites its nurse’s nipple, and strangles a bird, well before reaching the age of reason.

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• The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

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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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• Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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• Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

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• What is more immoral than war?

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• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

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• Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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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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• ‘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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• They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

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• There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

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• The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature’s qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

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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 imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

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• The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

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• Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

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Birth:	2nd June, 1740
Death:	2nd December, 1814
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Critic, Philosopher, Poet, Politician, Writer

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