TO LIBERTINES

Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon 

its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in 

fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him; 

hearken only to these delicious Promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct you 

to happiness. 

Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all 

that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained. 

You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by 

those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all 

those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents. 

And you, amiable debauchees, you who since youth have known no limits but those of your desires 

and who have been governed by your caprices alone, study the cynical Dolmancé, proceed like him 

and go as far as he if you too would travel the length of those flowered ways your lechery prepares 

for you; in Dolmancé's academy be at last convinced it is only by exploring and enlarging the sphere 

of his tastes and whims, it is only by sacrificing everything to the senses' pleasure that this individual, 

who never asked to be cast into this universe of woe, that this poor creature who goes under the 

name of Man, may be able to sow a smattering of roses atop the thorny path of life.

-- De Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir.
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