Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.