Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.