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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
Source: Dolmanc?, in Philosophy in the Bedroom, Dialogue the Fifth: Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans (1795).
-- Marquis de Sade, (Jun 2 1740-1814), French novelist; He was the author of erotic writings that gave rise to the term sadism; wrote Justine.