A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.