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Danh ngôn của Marquis de Sade (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
What is more immoral than war?
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.