Money is the seed of money.

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.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

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

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.