Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.