To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other.
Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.