Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.