Quotes from Marquis de Sade
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
- Marquis de Sade
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
- Marquis de Sade
Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
- Marquis de Sade
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
- Marquis de Sade
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
- Marquis de Sade
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
- Marquis de Sade
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
- Marquis de Sade
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
- Marquis de Sade
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
- Marquis de Sade
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
- Marquis de Sade
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
- Marquis de Sade
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
- Marquis de Sade