56 Quotations by Marquis de Sade
- 21. In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural insp ...

- 22. Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strengt ...

- 23. Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

- 24. Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyran ...

- 25. Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possib ...

- 26. Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th ...

- 27. Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate ...

- 28. Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need o ...

- 29. Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot t ...

- 30. Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot t ...

- 31. Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i ...

- 32. No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead th ...

- 33. One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

- 34. Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of ...

- 35. Religions are the cradles of despotism.

- 36. Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied wit ...

- 37. She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose ...

- 38. So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to ...

- 39. Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

- 40. The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised ...

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