Here am I at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice
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Dread not infanticide the crime is imaginary we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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