Marquis de Sade — "There is no good or evil in nature, only force and necessity. It is men, in thei…"

There is no good or evil in nature, only force and necessity. It is men, in their arrogance, who dare to dictate laws to the universe, calling natural impulses 'virtue' or 'vice.' But nature knows no virtue; it knows only instinct.
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Excerpt from a Letter to His Lawyer

Date: 1782

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