Marquis de Sade Literature Quotations

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.

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.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Religions are the cradles of despotism.