Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

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?