For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
Marquis de SadeCruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
Marquis de SadeThey declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
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