Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

We lose all that time which we might employ better.