No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.