The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

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

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.