Girls must be thwarted early in life.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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.
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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.