Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
MARQUIS DE SADENothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.
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I want to be the victim of his errors.
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Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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