Trust your heart rather than your head.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Sacrifice life to truth.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.