“La sociedad pervierte al ser humano.”

“Toute éducation des femmes doit être relative aux hommes (...) La femme est fait pour céder à l'homme et pour supporter ses injustices.”

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”

“El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas.”

“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.”

“Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human species would long ago have ceased to exist, had it depended entirely for its preservation on the reasonings of the individuals that compose it." Par 1, 36”

“The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages" Pt.1, 41”