One is not criminal for painting the strange tendencies inspired by nature
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On est point criminel pour faire la peinture des bizarres penchants qu'inspire la nature (English: "One is not criminal for painting the strange tendencies inspired by nature") is a dictum by Marquis de Sade. It is from the dedicatory lines From the final edition of Justine[1].
It supposedly is an adaptation of the verse by Petronius's Satyricon:
- "Quid me constricta spectatis fronte Catone,
- damnatisque novae simplicitatis opus?
- Sermonis puri non tristis gratia ridet,
- quodque facit populus, candida lingua refert."
--(Petronio, Satyricon, CXXXII, 15)
- “Why do ye, Cato's disciples, look at me with wrinkled foreheads, and condemn a work of fresh simplicity? A cheerful kindness laughs through my pure speech, and my clean mouth reports whatever the people do. All men born know of mating and the joys of love; all men are free to let their limbs glow in a warm bed. Epicurus, the true father of truth, bade wise men be lovers, and said that therein lay the crown of life.”
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