The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.