The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
The general will is always right.
Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.