Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.