Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

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Late 18th century (approx.)

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