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.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

By doing good we become good.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

To live is not breathing it is action.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.