Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
Marquis de SadeThere is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
Marquis de SadeCertain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
Marquis de Sade