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

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

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 universe was born restless and has never since been still.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

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.

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