We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?