Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
MARQUIS DE SADEThere you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
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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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Love Is Stronger Than Pride
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Don’t have children: they deform women’s bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
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If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.
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I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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