Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?
Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Even knaves may be made good for something.
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
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