Marquis de Sade:

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

Context

From 'Philosophy in the Bedroom'

Date / Period

1795

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