And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!