Marquis de Sade
Writer, extreme libertine philosophy
Sayings by Marquis de Sade
The more evil I do, the more good I feel.
There is no God, nor any of those things that are called virtues.
The greatest pleasure is to feel oneself superior to others.
The universe is a chaos of matter and motion, without any intelligent principle.
The only way to be truly free is to deny all authority.
The greatest joy is to commit a crime and get away with it.
There is no good or evil, there is only pleasure and pain.
The only true pleasure is that which is forbidden.
The greatest happiness is to be found in the contemplation of one's own wickedness.
The more I suffer, the more I enjoy.
The only way to be truly virtuous is to be vicious.
The greatest beauty is to be found in deformity.
The only true religion is the religion of pleasure.
The greatest pleasure is to defy God.
The greatest good is to do evil.
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
We monsters are necessary to nature also.
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.
And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?
Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.