Besides, you are an almost primitive man, and you would be tortured by remorse.

We have within us, be we savage or civilized, the sense of what is right, and this will not permit us to enjoy in peace ill-gotten gains acquired against the laws of the society in which we live,--for well-constituted societies are modeled on the system God has ordained for the universe.

In this respect societies have a divine origin.

Man does not originate ideas, he invents no form; he answers to the eternal relations that surround him on all sides.
Therefore, see what happens! Criminals going to the scaffold, and having it in their power to carry their secret with them, are compelled by the force of some mysterious power to make confessions before their heads are taken off.

Therefore, Monsieur Minoret, if your mind is at ease, I go my way satisfied." Minoret was so stupefied that he allowed the abbe to find his own way out.