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Marquis de Sade [1740-1814] French

Rank: 101
Novelist, Philosopher

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, infamous for his libertine sexuality.

Imagination, Happiness, Nature, Experience, Faith, Fitness, God, Good, Men, Strength, Success, Truth, Women

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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.	Nature	101
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.		102
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.		103
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.		104
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.	Imagination, Truth	105
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.		106
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.	Imagination	107
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.	Fitness, Nature	108
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?	Imagination	109
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.	Faith, Good	110
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.		111
'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.		112
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.	God, Men	113
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!		114
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.		115
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.		116
She 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.		117
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.	Success	118
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.	Strength	119
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.		120
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.	Happiness, Imagination	121
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.		122
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.		123
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.		124
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.	Experience, Women	125
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.	Happiness	126
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?		201
Religions are the cradles of despotism.		202
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.		203
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.		204
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.		205
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.		206
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.		207
Sensual excess drives out pity in man.		208
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.		209
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.		210
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.		211
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.		212
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.		213
What is more immoral than war?		214
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.		215
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.		216

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