"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"What then is the proper object of education? It is to make a man fit to be a man."

"It is from the bosom of the most perfect equality that the most monstrous despotism arises."

"The most important, most useful, and most neglected branch of education is that which teaches us to know ourselves."