"A woman's entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honored by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, …"

"The less men know, the more they believe."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."

"Everything is in a state of flux on this earth. Nothing keeps a form for long, and our affections, which are attached to external things, pass and change as they do."

"The general will is always right and tends to the public advantage; but it does not follow that the deliberations of the people are always equally correct."