I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.