Famous Marquis de Sade Quotes

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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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.
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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?
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