Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

The general will is always right.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.