Marquis de Sade Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

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

“Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.”

“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”

“The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.”

“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.”

“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?”

“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”

“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”