“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; harken only to these delicious promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct you to happiness.”
To Libertines
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
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French novelist and philosopher 1740–1814Related quotes

“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”
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Elements of Physiology (1875)

En anéantissant les désirs, on anéantit l'âme, & tout homme sans passion n'a en lui ni principe d'action, ni motif pour se mouvoir.
A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education, Vol. I (1773)

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”