"True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue……" — Marquis de Sade

"True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them."

— Marquis de Sade

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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to…
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught…
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican…
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B.… — Ambrose Bierce
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it… — William Buckland
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a… — George Washington
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. — Thomas Fuller
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh. — Charles Stanley
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime. — Desmond Tutu
You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them… — Loretta Chase
With success time flies that may hide the truth behind the lies, but the time of failure is so wise… — Anuj Somany

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