Charm Quote by Marquis de Sade

“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the circumstances --…

— Marquis de Sade

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery…

— Marquis de Sade

“Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy,…

— Emil M. Cioran

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

— Epicurus

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by…

— Samuel Johnson

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

— George Farquhar

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures…

— Cornel West

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

— Francis Quarles

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in…

— Jack Gilbert