Quotes from Marquis de Sade
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
— Marquis de Sade
T requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
— Marquis de Sade
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
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
— Marquis de Sade
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
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
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
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
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
— Marquis de Sade
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
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
— Marquis de Sade
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