Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

I want to be the victim of his errors.