"My enemies have done me more good than my friends."

"Let us then, in the first place, lay down as an incontestable maxim that the first impulses of nature are always right."

"I detest the great, their condition, their maxims, their vices, and I should detest them still more if I were one of them."

"It is not enough to be happy, one must also be useful."

"The general will is the constant will of all the members of the State; it is by it that they are citizens and free."