Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

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

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

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

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.