Popular Names
MARQUIS Name
| Name: | Marquis |
| Gender: | Male |
| Origin/Usage: | English, French |
| Meaning: | A title name ranking below duke and above earl |
Marquis de Sade: "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."