Donatien Alphonse Francois - Marquis de Sade

“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”

“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others”

“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”

“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”

“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.”

“No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.”

“All universal moral principles are idle fancies.”

“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!”

“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.”

“'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.”

"Woman`s destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her. "