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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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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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Lust Most Multiply Variety Vehicle
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .

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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Best Corrupt Other Utterly
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

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For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us.
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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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There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

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The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.

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Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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There 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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There 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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Can we become other than what we are?

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Can we become other than what we are?
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Become Other
What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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Do Dong Here Image Like Only
Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

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Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
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