The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
Girls must be thwarted early in life.
Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.