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.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

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

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

A person who can break wind is not dead.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.