If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

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

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.