Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADESex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
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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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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.
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool.
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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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Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
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What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…
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If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
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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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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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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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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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