Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.