56 Quotations by Marquis de Sade
- 1. Ah, Eugenie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divi ...

- 2. All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...

- 3. Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, i ...

- 4. Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of th ...

- 5. Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult ...

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

- 7. Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spo ...

- 8. Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, ...

- 9. Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu ...

- 10. Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef ...

- 11. For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; ...

- 12. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call ...

- 13. Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, ...

- 14. Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we ha ...

- 15. Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her ...

- 16. Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be ...

- 17. How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ...

- 18. Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta ...

- 19. I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth ...

- 20. If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once ...

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