Marquis De Sade Quotes

What is more immoral than war?

~ Marquis De Sade

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

~ Marquis De Sade

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

~ Marquis De Sade

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

~ Marquis De Sade

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

~ Marquis De Sade

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

~ 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

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

~ 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

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

~ Marquis De Sade

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

~ Marquis De Sade