It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.