Quotes By Marquis De Sade

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

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.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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.

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

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

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

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

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

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.