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.
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
Even knaves may be made good for something.
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
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.
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
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