Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
The general will is always right.
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.