You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man