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.
Marquis de Sade
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- 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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