That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.