Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the… — 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
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as… — 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
