“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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.
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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.
