Marquis de Sade Quotes

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Passion, Doubt

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis de Sade

Faith, Between, Immediate

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade

Life, Strength, Revenge

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

Old, Dangerous, Shame

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

Today, Long, Silence

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Marquis de Sade

Human, Cannot, Lose

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

Why, Afraid, Save

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Marquis de Sade

Pity, Sensual, Excess

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Beautiful, Her

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade

Philosophy, Against, Flame

'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

Death, Human, Shall

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

Fitness, Nature, Body

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Perfect, Sometimes

Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis de Sade

Religions, Despotism

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

Philosophy, Light, Achieve

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis de Sade

Truth, Far, Less

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

Powerful, Two, Lust

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: June 2, 1740

Died: December 2, 1814

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