Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

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.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.