Marquis de Sade:

The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it's just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it for the sake of appearances, that's all.

— Marquis de Sade Contemporary

Writer, extreme libertine philosophy

Context

From his writings

Date / Period

Late 18th century (approx.)

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