Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

He who blushes is already guilty.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

The general will is always right.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.