314 Quotes by Marquis de Sade

One can be, in a word, virtuous in thought, character, and temperament—without being obliged to adopt a thousand absurd systems that have nothing to do with virtue.

Virtue only needs to be worshipped; it follows the path to happiness...it must be so, a thousand arms open to receive its devotees, if they are pursued by adversity. But everybody deserts the guilty man...one blushes at one's attachment to him or at the tears one sheds for him, there is a fear of contagion, he is banished from everybody's hearts, and one condemns out of pride the man one ought to help out of humanity.

Crime causes so much horror, even to them [criminals], that they would like, in order to escape from the necessity they feel to be bad, to be believed and always to be depicted as virtuous.

The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the past, but in reverse; that everyone should have his turn is only meet. And it shall be turnabout again tomorrow, for nothing in Nature is stable and the governments men direct are bound to prove as changeable and ephemeral as they.

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.

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

ein hübsches mädchen sollte sich damit befassen zu ficken und niemals zu zeugenla philosophie dans le boudoir , ou les instituteurs immoraux | philosophy in the bedroom |die philosophie im boudoir oder die lasterhaften lehrmeister

ein hübsches mädchen sollte sich damit befassen zu ficken und niemals zu zeugen

He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides.