From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
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.