Marquis de Sade

At twenty-six, I should be sober and staid, and I'm still nothing but the most licentious of women...

man only faithfully observed Nature’s promptings, he would never have fallen subject to modesty

she was less plump

when one has discharged abundantly, what one has expended must be replenished.”

The fundamental tenet of my philosophy,

scorn for public opinion

For the human conscience

direct product of a given society’s manners and of a particular climate and geography

is not at all times and everywhere the same, but rather almost always the

She who prizes her good reputation is subject to at least as many torments as she who behaves neglectfully of it: the first lives in unceasing dread of losing what is precious to her, the other trembles before the prospects opened up by her own carelessness.