Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
I only see clearly what I remember.
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]
Everything degenerates in the hands of man.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.
Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
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