I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. — Marquis de Sade
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. — Marquis de Sade
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. — Marquis de Sade
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. — 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
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. — 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
There is no God, nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. — Marquis de Sade
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. — Marquis de Sade