“So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discret...” — Marquis de Sade Quote

“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.”

“'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.”

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”

“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”

“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”

“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.”

“Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.”

“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

“Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.”

“Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.”

“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”