The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.