I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.