Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing.
MARQUIS DE SADEShe had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
More Marquis de Sade Quotes
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Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood.
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
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Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
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Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.
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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…
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Even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.
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I’ve been to Hell. You’ve only read about it.
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A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking to suit other people!
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
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Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
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