Quit Thy Childhood, My Friend, And Wake

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.

We Should Not Teach Children The Sciences; But Give Them A Taste For Them.

Do You Not Know...that A Child Badly Taught Is Farther From Being Wise Than One Not Taught At All?

Nature Never Deceives Us; It Is We Who Deceive Ourselves.

Equality Is Deemed By Many A Mere Speculative Chimera, Which Can Never Be Reduced To Practice. But If The Abuse Is Inevitable, Does It Follow That We Ought Not To Try At Least To Mitigate It? It Is Precisely Because The Force Of Things Tends Always To Destroy Equality That The Force Of The Legislature Must Always Tend To Maintain It.