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# Marquis de Sade

(1740–1814)   Prose Writer   Kingdom of France

 **181** quotes in **741** categories

Marquis de Sade questions what we call disorder and order, suggesting the labels may be mistaken. He writes about a pleasure that comes from sacrilege, and he argues that happiness is not found in either vice or virtue but in how we choose to appreciate them.

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Marquis de Sade was a prose writer from the Kingdom of France, best known for *Justine*.

## Quick Facts About Marquis de Sade

Born June 2, 1740

Died December 2, 1814

Nationality Kingdom of France

Profession Prose Writer

Notable works Justine

Known for Juliette, The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine

Spouse Renée-Pélagie de Sade

## About Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer, libertine, political activist and nobleman. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, dialogues and political tracts. Some of his works were published under his own name while he was alive, but most appeared anonymously or were released after his death. He is best remembered for his libertine novels and for the imprisonments he faced because of sex crimes, blasphemy and pornography.

##  Quotes by Marquis de Sade

> [It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/it-is-always-by-way-of-pain-one-arrives-at-pleasure/)

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[Pain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pain/)

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> [Religions are the cradles of despotism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/religions-are-the-cradles-of-despotism/)

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[Despotism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despotism/)

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> [Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/any-enjoyment-is-weakened-when-shared/)

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[Enjoyment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enjoyment/)

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> [What is more immoral than war?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/what-is-more-immoral-than-war/)

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[Immoral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/immoral/)

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> [I want to be the victim of his errors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/i-want-to-be-the-victim-of-his-errors/)

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[Errors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/errors/)

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> [Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/social-order-at-the-expense-of-liberty-is-hardly-a-bargain/)

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[Freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freedom/)

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> [All universal moral principles are idle fancies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/all-universal-moral-principles-are-idle-fancies/)

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[Idle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/idle/)

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> [Sex without pain is like food without taste](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/sex-without-pain-is-like-food-without-taste/)

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[Pain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pain/)

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> [There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/there-is-no-god-nature-sufficeth-unto-herself-in-no-wise-hath-she/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/fuck-is-one-expected-to-be-a-gentleman-when-one-is-stiff/)

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[Gentleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gentleman/)

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> [What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/what-we-are-doing-here-is-only-the-image-of-what-we-would-like-to-do/)

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[Doing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doing/)

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> [“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-only-way-to-a-woman-s-heart-is-along-the-path-of-torment/)

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[Suffering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/suffering/)

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> [I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/i-ve-already-told-you-the-only-way-to-a-woman-s-heart-is-along-the/)

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[Heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/)

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> [Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/nature-has-not-got-two-voices-you-know-one-of-them-condemning-all-day/)

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[Condemning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/condemning/)

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> [Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/cruelty-very-far-from-being-a-vice-is-the-first-sentiment-nature-2/)

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[Cruelty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruelty/)

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> [The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-man-who-alters-his-way-of-thinking-to-suit-others-is-a-fool/)

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[Fool](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fool/)

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> [For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/for-mortal-men-there-is-but-one-hell-and-that-is-the-folly-and/)

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[Annihilation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/annihilation/)

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> [Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/man-s-natural-character-is-to-imitate-that-of-the-sensitive-man-is-to/)

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> [I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/i-assumed-that-everything-must-yield-to-me-that-the-entire-universe/)

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[Universe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/universe/)

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> [“The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-past-encourages-me-the-present-electrifies-me-and-i-have-little/)

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[Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/)

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> [Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/miserable-creatures-thrown-for-a-moment-on-the-surface-of-this-little/)

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[Animals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animals/)

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> [Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/nature-who-for-the-perfect-maintenance-of-the-laws-of-her-general/)

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> [The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-reasoning-man-who-scorns-the-prejudices-of-simpletons-necessarily/)

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[Enemy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/)

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> [My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/my-passions-concentrated-on-a-single-point-resemble-the-rays-of-a-sun/)

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[Fire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fire/)

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> [Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/those-laws-being-forged-for-universal-application-are-in-perpetual/)

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[Application](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/application/)

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> [My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/my-manner-of-thinking-so-you-say-cannot-be-approved-do-you-suppose-i-2/)

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[Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/)

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> [“In completing your civilization, the causes changed, but you maintained the custom: no longer did you sacrifice victims to gods athirst for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/in-completing-your-civilization-the-causes-changed-but-you-maintained/)

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[Civilization](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civilization/)

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> [Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/thread-of-their-days-without-pity-and-in-the-midst-of-life-without/)

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[Clouds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clouds/)

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> [What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/what-i-should-like-to-find-is-a-crime-the-effects-of-which-would-be/)

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[Causes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/causes/)

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> [I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/i-think-that-if-there-were-a-god-there-would-be-less-evil-on-this/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/if-the-objects-who-serve-us-feel-ecstacy-they-are-much-more-often/)

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> [“Not many people can imagine a president of the Parlement of Aix—it is a species of beast of which people have often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/not-many-people-can-imagine-a-president-of-the-parlement-of-aix-it-is/)

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> [“Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/before-you-were-born-you-were-nothing-more-than-an-indistinguishable/)

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> [“From an early age I set myself above the monstrous fantasies of religion, being perfectly convinced that the existence of the creator…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/from-an-early-age-i-set-myself-above-the-monstrous-fantasies-of/)

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> [“Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/believe-me-eugenie-the-words-vice-and-virtue-supply-us-only-with/)

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> [“Now let us consider theft. From the standpoint of the wealthy, this is, of course, an horrendous crime. But, laying partiality aside,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/now-let-us-consider-theft-from-the-standpoint-of-the-wealthy-this-is/)

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[Money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/money/)

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> [Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/cruelty-very-far-from-being-a-vice-is-the-first-sentiment-nature/)

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> [If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/if-nature-denies-eternity-to-beings-it-follows-that-their-destruction/)

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[Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/)

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> [“Let us remember that, despite the tasteless fables in the Holy Writ -- Sodom and Gomorrah, for example -- Nature does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/let-us-remember-that-despite-the-tasteless-fables-in-the-holy-writ/)

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> [The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marquis-de-sade/the-completest-submissiveness-is-your-lot-and-that-is-all/)

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## Marquis de Sade by topic

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                        "text": "“In completing your civilization, the causes changed, but you maintained the custom: no longer did you sacrifice victims to gods athirst for human blood, but to laws, which you deem sage because you found in them a specious reason to indulge your former habits, together with the semblance of a justice which was, at bottom, nothing other than the desire to preserve those horrid practices which you could not abjure.”",
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                        "text": "What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.",
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                        "text": "“From an early age I set myself above the monstrous fantasies of religion, being perfectly convinced that the existence of the creator is a revolting absurdity in which not even children believe any more; there is no need for me to restrain my tastes in order to please Him, it is from Nature that I received these tastes, and I should offend her by resisting them – if they are wicked, it is because they serve her purposes. In her hands I am nothing but a machine for her to operate as she wishes, and there is not a single one of my crimes that fails to serve her; the greater her need, the more she spurs me on – I should be a fool to resist her. Only the law stands in my way, but I defy it – my gold and my influence place me beyond the reach of those crude scales meant only for the common people.”",
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                        "text": "“Believe me, Eugenie, the words \"vice\" and \"virtue\" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may picture it, that is truly criminal; or one that can really be called virtuous. Everything depends on our customs and on the climates we live in. What is considered a crime here is often a virtue a few hundred leagues away; and the virtues of another hemisphere might, quite conversely, be regarded as crimes among us. There is no atrocity that hasn't been deified, no virtue that hasn't been stigmatized.”",
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                        "text": "“Now let us consider theft. From the standpoint of the wealthy, this is, of course, an horrendous crime. But, laying partiality aside, let us ask ourselves as republicans: shall we, upholding the principle that all men are equal, brand as wrong an act whose effect is to accomplish a more equal distribution of wealth? Theft furthers economic equilibrium: one never hears of the rich stealing from the poor, thereby aggravating the economic imbalance; only of the poor stealing from the rich, thereby correcting it. What possibly be wrong with that?”",
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                        "text": "Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.",
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                        "text": "If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.",
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