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

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?