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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Marquis de Sade

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One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature’s too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
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Insult Must Nature One Proportion Responsible Sorry Strange Taste Tendency Wrong
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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Altogether Civilization Cruelty Energy Man Simply Vice Virtue
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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Abstraction Being Entirely Feel Happiness Imagination Moved Product Spend Way
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
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it.
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Believe Earth Evil Exist God Power Think Will
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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Ambition Avarice Cruelty Fluid Lend Life Lust Nervous Other Passion Revenge Strength Support Them
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
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Breed Nothing Pleasure
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Conscience Nature Prejudice Voice
For the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
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Always Lwa Reason Second Service Simple
What is more immoral than war?
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Immortal More War
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
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Behaviour Boy Good Idea Little Naughty Spank
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
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Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
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
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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Always Anatomy Certain Conversation Lubricate Portion Run Smooth
So much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . .
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Absurd Civilize Consequence Depravity Maintain Cruelty Men Nature Nearer

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