Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
MARQUIS DE SADEThe majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.
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My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
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The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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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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What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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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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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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