If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

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

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

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.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.