Marquis de Sade
Writer, extreme libertine philosophy
Sayings by Marquis de Sade
I have always been convinced that the universe is a place of perpetual motion, and that this motion is always tending towards destruction.
It is always by means of crimes that empires are founded.
There is no God but nature, there is no law but force.
The more perverse a pleasure, the more refined it is.
Everything is permitted, provided it gives pleasure.
The only true philosopher is the one who dares to think everything.
I preach nothing but pleasure, and I practice what I preach.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
The greatest pleasure on earth is to be free.
My only crime is to have been too daring in my thoughts.
To be good is to be weak.
The universe is a chaos, and man is a part of that chaos.
I have always preferred the society of vice to that of virtue.
There is no evil but that which is done to oneself.
My principles are not those of the world, but they are those of nature.
The greatest crime is to be born.
The wicked alone are happy, because they alone are free.
The only way to be happy is to be evil.
It is only through daring that one can achieve anything great.
The human heart is the most fertile ground for vice.