black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…

Marquis de Sade

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Capacity Each Endowed Feeling Kindly Nature Other Squander
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
There you have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Deliquncies Earth Equality Evil Immediately Perfection Pleasure Punishment Rigour Sense Sight
The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Complete Lot Submissiveness
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Fortunate Mean Most Person Satisfy Vagaries
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Carry Crime Destroy Dread Evacuating Infanticide Kind Medicine Mistress Womb
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Blush Dangerous Grown Old One Shame
The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Animal Before Bite Break Canary Emphatically Exist Infant Long Nature Ourselves Reason Savage Stamp
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Forgive God Idea Mankind Sole Wrong
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Another Chastenenth Earth God Helf Holy Intention Life Lord May Permit Presecute Question Reward Righteous Scripture
Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Enlarge Individual Law Life Protect Quater Taste Trouble
My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
Evil is… a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world
MARQUIS DE SADE

Before Constitute Create Creature Entity Eternal Evil Exist Hideous Monstrous One Perishable World
The most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Arratly Bizzare Conflict Every Extraordinary Human Institution Law Most Sem
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Marquis de Sade Quotes