The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade...… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his… — Marquis De Sade Copy Share Image
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior? — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.” — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share
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