Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and de Sade denied being their author. De Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1740
CountryFrance
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.
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.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. 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.
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.