One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

He who blushes is already guilty.