Marquis de Sade Quotes

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

Fool, Care, Thinking

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

Heart, Woman, Path

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.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

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

Happiness, Work, Ideal

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

Passion, Lust, Demands

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade

Pain, Pleasure, Arrives

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

Faith, Good, Dead

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade

Sex, Important, Satisfied

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Marquis de Sade

Liberty, Social, Order

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

God, Men, Judge

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.
Marquis de Sade

Happiness, Choice, Lies

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

Ourselves, Order, Virtue

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

Everything, Joy, Means

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

Thought, Others, Mode

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

Nature, Two, Voices

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

Nature, God, Wise

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

Success, May, Lovable

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade

Moral, Principles, Universal

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

Nature, Creation, Hence

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

Character, Person, Others

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.
Marquis de Sade

Women, Experience, Pain

What is more immoral than war?
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

Nation, Means, Wars

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.
Marquis de Sade

Different, Spring, Same

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

God, Cannot, Forgive

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: June 2, 1740

Died: December 2, 1814

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