I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

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

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.