Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

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

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

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