Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

The passions are the voice of the body.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.