We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

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.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

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

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