4 Donatien de Sade Quotes on Ethics

Donatien de Sade quotes on ethics

15. Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

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17. One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

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18. Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

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21. To kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible.