So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.
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