As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

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.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I only see clearly what I remember.