We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Social man lives constantly outside himself.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.