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.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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.