Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong.
MARQUIS DE SADEPregnancies 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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So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration.
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We monsters are necessary to nature also.
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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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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
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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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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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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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