I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.