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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. — Marquis De Sade

Love Is Stronger Than Pride — Marquis De Sade

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! — Marquis De Sade

Religions are the cradles of despotism. — Marquis De Sade

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. — Marquis De Sade

Sex without pain is like food without taste — Marquis De Sade

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. — Marquis De Sade

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me — Marquis De Sade

That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ... — Marquis De Sade

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others. — Marquis De Sade

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. — Marquis De Sade

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. — Marquis De Sade

It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain. — Marquis De Sade

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. — Marquis De Sade

My vengeance needs blood. — Marquis De Sade

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. — Marquis De Sade

To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them. — Marquis De Sade

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. — Marquis De Sade

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. — Marquis De Sade

I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade. — Christopher Isherwood

Can we become other than what we are? — Marquis De Sade

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

I've been to Hell. You've only read about it. — Marquis De Sade

The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. — Marquis De Sade

One has always had too much when one has had enough — Marquis De Sade

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. — Marquis De Sade

It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure — Marquis De Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. — Marquis De Sade

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared. — Marquis De Sade

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind. — Marquis De Sade

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis De Sade

Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it? — Marquis De Sade

Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue. — Marquis De Sade

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. — Marquis De Sade

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. — Marquis De Sade

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. — Marquis De Sade

Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade' — David Ansen

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. — Marquis De Sade

Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something). — Philippe Lejeune

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. — Marquis De Sade

This monster was outfitted with faculties so gigantic that even the broadest thoroughfares would still have appeared too narrow for him. — Marquis De Sade

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis De Sade

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

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

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. — Marquis De Sade

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. — Marquis De Sade

I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm) — L.G.A. McIntyre

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think ... — Marquis De Sade

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. — Marquis De Sade

A little less vice is virtuousness in a very vicious heart — Marquis De Sade

The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest. — Marquis De Sade

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. — Marquis De Sade

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable. — Marquis De Sade

Only two things are required to accredit
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on. — Marquis De Sade

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. — Marquis De Sade

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. — Marquis De Sade

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect. — Marquis De Sade

Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime. — Marquis De Sade

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. — Marquis De Sade

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? — Marquis De Sade

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? — Marquis De Sade

You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous! — Marquis De Sade

I want to be the victim of his errors. — Marquis De Sade

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. — Marquis De Sade

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain — Marquis De Sade

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. — Marquis De Sade

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. — Marquis De Sade

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. — Marquis De Sade

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! — Marquis De Sade

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women. — Marquis De Sade

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do. — Marquis De Sade

What is more immoral than war? — Marquis De Sade

He's not getting out of here again ... But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me. — Rachel Caine

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties. — Marquis De Sade

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love. — William F. Buckley Jr.

The greatest pleasures are born of conquered repugnancies. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

life is a bitch so enjoy it ;p — Marquis De Sade

Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later. — Marquis De Sade

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength. — Marquis De Sade

Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them. — Marquis De Sade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. — Marquis De Sade

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change. — Marquis De Sade

There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally. — Marquis De Sade

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

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. — Marquis De Sade

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. — Marquis De Sade

Not my manner of thinking but the manner of thinking of others has been the source of my unhappiness. — Marquis De Sade

The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all; — Marquis De Sade

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders. — Marquis De Sade