Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Maximum individuality within maximum community

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.