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.

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

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Excerpt from a Letter to His Lawyer

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1782

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