Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

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.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.