Looking for the source of a Marquis de Sade quote

[FieldHound]

One of the chapters of Alfredo Bonanno's Armed Joy opens with a quote from Sade which reads:-

"The deformed man always finds mirrors that make him handsome"


However, putting this into a search engine only brings up results relating to Armed Joy. I'd imagine this is because the original quote has been translated from French to Italian, from Italian to English, and that the quote might be worded differently as commonly translated from French straight to English. Anyone have any idea which work of Sade's this quote might come from?

Please move if this is in the wrong section, I mostly think of Sade as a philosopher but by all means shift this thread if it is better suited somewhere else.

[The Feral Underclass]

"The cripple also discovers certain mirrors which make him handsome."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_(Sade)

[The Feral Underclass]

http://catalog.lambertvillelibrary.org/texts/French/sade/justine/chapters/34.htm

[FieldHound]

Thanks :)

[The Feral Underclass]

That wiki link isn't working for some reason, but the book is called Justine. It's also known as The Misfortunes of Virtue.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Ah yes....the Divine Marquis.

You know what's funny? When I was in High School I originally sought out Sade's books because I wanted to get my jollies (hormones, ya know). But what I discovered was that, in between the casual sex and flagellation, Sade had some rather intelligent and incisive commentaries on morality, philosophy and politics. I also found that he rather regularly attacked the idea of private property in its many forms.

[FieldHound]

Yeah, I don't know the ins and outs of his life (besides his devious activities and libertine views on sexuality) but he was a strong supporter of the French revolution, but was against the massacres that ensued from it.