La marquise de Gange Quotes

“...innocence and virtue are easily alarmed; as tender souls never employ artifice themselves, it is so painful for them to imagine it in others that they almost prefer to accept the lie rather than search for the truth.”
― Marquis de Sade, La marquise de Gange

“The man who desires women only to deceive them, who loves them only to possess them, who takes them only to betray them, and who scorns them when they no longer please him...the man for whom nothing is sacred when it comes to seducing them, and who triumphs only in order to disgrace them—will such a man, I say, ever feel the happiness of finding a virtuous woman, someone who could repair the disorder of his desires, and replace that shameful frivolity with the sweetness of those ties that bind when woven by marriage?”
― Marquis de Sade, La marquise de Gange

“The true spirit of sociability is to allow others to shine; and as one can only do so by sacrificing oneself, there are few people in the world who feel capable of making such an effort.”
― Marquis de Sade, La marquise de Gange