If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.