If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

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.

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.

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

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.