Cities are the sinks of the human race.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I felt before I thought

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)