More quotes by Marquis de Sade

"The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success."
"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."
"Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool."
"Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool."
"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."