The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Category Archive: 1712
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
I only see clearly what I remember.
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.