Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
Marquis de SadeDon't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
Marquis de SadeOne must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
Marquis de SadeHappiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
Marquis de SadeMurder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
Marquis de Sade