Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity