Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosoph...
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
يا مكوّن الأكوان, أنا موجود لأنك موجود, إن أصررت على تأمل ذلك فلأني متعطش إلى المنبع توّاق إلى عين الحق. أعزّ ما أجني من استعمال العقل هو التفاني في جلالك. إن عقلي لينبهر, ويحلو لي القصور والعجز إذ أش...
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance...
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that howev...
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.
لقد ولد الإنسان ليعمل لا ليفكر..إن التفكير لا يجعل منه إلا إنسانا تعيسا ولا يجعله أفضل او أعقل.إن التفكير يجعله يندم على الأشياء التي أضاعها و يحرمه من التمتع بحاضره .و التفكير يزين له المستقبل التعيس...
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: I hereby...
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is not...
Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbrid...
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowe...
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that h...
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.