Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
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.
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.