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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.

Marquis de Sade

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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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Being Deep Deserve Down Enjoy Gone Such Treat Way
Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Appreciate Choice Happiness Individual Make Nor One Organization Other Pursuant Virtue
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
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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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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
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God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
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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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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Another Barbourous Crime Duplicate Law Make Punish Punishment
When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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