Marquis De Sade Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marquis De Sade
Marquis De Sade Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ...
Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men.
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
This monster was outfitted with faculties so gigantic that even the broadest thoroughfares would still have appeared too narrow for him.
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.
Only two things are required to accredit
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally.
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.