In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

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.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man