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Marquis de Sade
Nature, who for...
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and...
The imagination is...
The imagination is the spur of delights. . . all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not...
All universal moral...
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Source: The 120 Days of...
Every principle is...
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the...
The more defects...
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his...
Humane sentiments are...
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying...
Never lose sight...
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it...
Happiness lies neither...
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we...
Are wars. ....
Are wars. . . anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is...
All, all is...
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of...
It is only...
It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that...
How delightful are...
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a...
The ultimate triumph...
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to...
It is certain...
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a...
For mortal men...
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life...
Miserable creatures, thrown...
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the...
They declaim against...
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its...
Truth titillates the...
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Source: Friar Claude, in...
Man's natural character...
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom...
The primary and...
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is...
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