• 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
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher 1740-1814
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. discretion
2. compensate
3. ourselves
4. chastity
5. obliged
6. display

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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. by : Marquis de Sade

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