Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

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

Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

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

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.