{"author":"Marquis de Sade","author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["passion","competition","doubt "],"id":5628,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["beauty","extraordinary","ugliness"],"id":24907,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["delight","happiness","pleasure","virtue"],"id":25697,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["fitness","body","church "],"id":33588,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["conscience","nature","passions"],"id":40638,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"‎'...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλη αξία από εκείνη που τους δίνει η φαντασία μας.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["fetishism","philosophy","psychoanalysis","psychology"],"id":45693,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something that puts his beloved in a bad light, he should believe neither his ears nor his eyes, he should listen to his heart alone.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["betrayal"],"id":52891,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["good","see","mistress "],"id":83766,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["morality","otherness"],"id":86615,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"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.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["lust","marquis-de-sade"],"id":103517,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}