There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

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

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.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.