“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others”

“The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm not part of it.”

“Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.”

“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”

“I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.”

“Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.”

“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”