God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.