Quotes by : Marquis de Sade

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience....

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply....

What is more immoral than war?

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice....

I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul but is love an illness to be cured? All....

Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action,....

When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something....

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength....

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may....