1. You have to promote everything about you, not necessarily with your words, but with your true colors.

2. The devil of property will destroy whatever it touches.

3. A truly free person only wants what he can get and only does what he likes to do. I am my first fundamental principle.

4. Applying truth to those things whose existence is not important to anyone, and knowing it is useless and meaningless is a blasphemy against the sacred term truth. Truth, if it is useless, is not a necessary thing.

5. Once people start to criticize each other, the concept of respect will take root in people's hearts. Everyone requires others to respect him, and no one will be safe when he disrespects others. From this, the original requirement of politeness arose among primitive people, and every intentional injury became an insult, because not only did the injury occur, but everyone also regarded the injury as a personal insult. It is often harder to endure than the injury itself.

6. A truly happy person rarely expresses his happiness in words and smiles. It can be said that he stores his joy in his heart. Having fun in poverty is a disappointment. and a smoke screen of trouble. Melancholy and pleasure go hand in hand, sympathy and tears follow sweet joy, and extreme joy will make one cry rather than laugh.

7. Where the effectiveness of the law and the authority of the law protectors disappear, no one will be safe and free.

8. Distress is undoubtedly a very good teacher; however, the tuition fees charged by this teacher are very high, and what students receive from him is often not worth the tuition fees paid.

9. I don’t want to die, but I am now in a dying state. I hope to live for you, but it is you who are depriving me of my life.

10. The last piece of advice I give you is that you should be especially wary of malicious misinterpretations and vicious rumors, because such sinister intentions are often more terrifying than the actions under its control. A trustworthy watchdog will only bark when a robber comes, waking up the whole family and putting them on alert. However, we hate a barking dog. It barks incessantly, making people uneasy, and its untimely barking often Resulting in us not hearing any alarms when we need them.

11. When you admire a woman, you usually love her as she is now; when you admire a boy, you usually focus on what he will be like in the future.

12. You are willing to sacrifice anything, and as a result, you will get nothing. Because you pursue your desires wholeheartedly, as a result, you will never be able to satisfy your desires.

13. The first law of human nature is to protect one’s own survival, and the first concern of human nature is the care it should have for itself; moreover, once a person reaches the age of reason, he can make his own judgment He becomes his own master from that moment on when he maintains the appropriate methods of his own existence.

14. The money a person owns is the means to obtain freedom, but the money we eagerly pursue is the tool of our slavery. Therefore, I held on tightly to all the money I had and was indifferent to what I didn’t have.

15. I have repeatedly said that true happiness cannot be described in words. It can only be experienced with the heart. The deeper the feeling, the more indescribable it is, because true happiness is not the accumulation of a series of facts, but the accumulation of a series of facts. It is the continuation of a state.

16. The biggest secret of education is to coordinate physical exercise and mental exercise.

17. The power of legislation should always tend to maintain equality, because the power of things always tends to destroy equality.

18. If a person is afraid of pain, afraid of various diseases, afraid of unexpected events, afraid of life danger and death, he will not be able to endure anything.

19. Nature wants children to be like children before they become adults.

20. I am swallowed up by the need for love, but I have never been able to satisfy this need well. I am about to reach the gate of aging and die without having truly lived.

21. The joy of family life is the best antidote to the poison of bad habits.

22. I would like to live in freedom and die in freedom. This means that everyone obeys the law, whether it is me or anyone else, and is willing to be bound by this honor. This is a comfortable and useful restraint to which even the noblest men are willing to impose themselves, because they need nothing else.

23. The question is not what kind of knowledge he has learned, but that the knowledge he has learned must be useful.

24. Evil never attacks an upright soul in such a grand manner. It always finds ways to sneak attacks, always wearing some kind of sophistry mask, and often wearing a certain moral cloak.

25. The gorgeousness of decoration can show a person's wealth, and elegance can show a person's taste, but a person's health and growth must be identified by other signs. Only when a laborer We can find a strong body under the coarse cloth, not under the clothes of the lover.

26. Reading is the bane of childhood because books teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

27. The combination of thinking and practicality can produce clear concepts and find some simple methods. The discovery of these methods stimulates self-esteem, and the accuracy of the methods can satisfy the intelligence. It turns out that Boring work becomes interesting when there is a simple method.

28. The development of heterosexual friendship is like a hyperbola, infinitely close but never touching.

29. Because the poor have nothing else to lose except freedom. Unless they are extremely crazy, they will never abandon their only property (freedom) for free. As for the rich, it can be said that they are very cautious about their wealth, but they are the most vulnerable to damage. Therefore, it is more necessary for the rich to take some precautions to protect their property from loss. In short, a more reasonable assumption is that he can only create things that are beneficial to a person, but it is impossible for him to create things that are harmful to a person.

30. All disciplines should essentially begin with mental enlightenment.

31. If you have a weak character, the most you can do is refrain from committing evil. If you still talk about noble virtues, that would be arrogance and boldness.

32. If a person is so pitiful that he has never done anything that makes him feel satisfied with himself in retrospect and feels that his life has not been in vain, then this person can be said to lack the ability to understand himself. ; and, because he does not realize what virtue is most suitable to his nature, he can only remain a bad person and feel endless pain.

33. Political differences will inevitably lead to differences between people. The expansion of inequality between officials and the people will inevitably lead to inequality among the people. Moreover, due to desires, talents and It varies greatly depending on the environment. Officials usurp illegal power to promote a group of lackeys and give them a portion of their power. At the same time, driven by blind ambition, the people are willing to be oppressed by others. Instead of looking upward, they are more interested in oppressing others than being independent. They are willing to be slaves in order to enslave others in turn. It is difficult to make a person People who have no ambition to control others obey others. Even the most astute politician cannot make a person who pursues freedom surrender. However, inequality can easily flourish among cowards and ambitious people who are always waiting for the opportunity and are always ready to take risks. Whether they want to dominate others or obey others, it makes little difference to them.

34. First of all, we must admit that the stronger the desire, the more legal restrictions are needed. However, not to mention that the chaos and evil that desire brings to society every day have proven the inability of the law in this regard, we must also seriously study whether these evils are accompanied by the law.

35. There are only noble thoughts, but no noble blood.

36. There is no purely unconscious action in the world. As long as we are good at looking for it, we can find out the reasons for our actions from within.

37. The constant contact between people and animals and between people naturally makes people aware of a certain relationship. This relationship can be described by words such as size, strength, weakness, speed, cowardice and courage. Expressions are mostly the result of unconscious comparisons when necessary. These relationships ultimately lead to some kind of thinking, or a kind of mechanical prudence, which prompts humans to take the most necessary precautions to ensure their own safety.

38. We can say that savages are not evil precisely because they do not know what good is; because what prevents them from doing evil is neither the development of knowledge nor the restrictions of law, but only the calmness of emotions. and ignorance of sin.

39. The reason why barbarians are not evil is because they do not know what good is. Because what prevents them from doing evil is not the development of wisdom or the constraints of the law, but emotional calm and ignorance of evil.

40. The revenge that each person takes for the slights he suffers is directly proportional to the degree of personal respect for himself. Therefore, revenge becomes a terrible behavior, and people become cold and cruel.

41. Experience told him that the only motivation for human activities is the pursuit of one's own happiness. Thus man can distinguish between two cases: the rare case in which, owing to common interests, he can rely on the help of his companions; He cannot trust his companions when their interests conflict with each other. In the former case, people are united into groups, or at least loosely united, which union imposes no restrictions on its members, and which dissolves as soon as the needs of the temporary union are satisfied. In the latter case, each one looks out for his own interests, and if he thinks he is strong enough he will use force openly, if he thinks he is not strong enough he will use flattery or trickery.

42. Life is like a fleeting moment. It itself is nothing. Its value depends entirely on how we use it. The good we do is all that remains, and that alone marks its significance.

43. Virtue is a state of passion. When we live in it, we must often fight against ourselves.

44. For a person who is good at understanding happiness, no one else can make him truly miserable.

45. Among all the undertakings that are beneficial to mankind, the most important one is the undertaking of educating people.

46. If we trace the development of inequality along different transformations, we will find that the inequality in the first stage is the establishment of law and ownership, and the inequality in the second stage is the official system. Establishment, and the transformation of legal authority into autocratic authority is the third and final stage of inequality. Therefore, the inequality recognized in the first stage is rich and poor, the second stage is strong and weak, the third stage is slaves and masters, and the inequality in the last stage is the final result of the continuous development of inequality in the first two stages until new changes. Until it is completely resolved, or until it returns to legal status.

47. In short, I can conclude that the path he asked me to take is that life, death, poverty, or becoming a lazy person. But that was not what he saw. He only saw a soul being rescued from a pagan religion and given back to the Catholic Church. As long as I go to mass, what does it mean to be an upright person or a lazy person? Besides, don’t think that this idea is unique to Catholics. All religions that only talk about doctrine have this idea, where the most fundamental thing is faith rather than behavior.

48. When I see naturally free animals banging their heads against the bars of the cage due to their natural hatred of restraint, when I see countless primitive people who despise the lustful life in Europe, When I was naked and endured hunger, war, swords and death to defend their freedom and independence, I deeply felt that slaves were not worthy of talking about freedom.

49. Conscience is shy. It likes silence and will be frightened by the noise of the world.

50. The more officials there are, the weaker the government.

51. The people always want themselves to be happy, but the people themselves cannot always see what happiness is.

52. God is just; He wants me to suffer; yet He knows I am innocent. It was from this that my faith arose; my heart and my reason cried out to me, telling me that my faith would not be deceived by me. So let people and fate do this and do that, and I will learn to endure without complaint; everything will return to normal order, and the day will come sooner or later when it is my turn.

53. The inevitable consequence of luxury - the disintegration of etiquette, which in turn causes the corruption of taste.

54. Looking at our civilized society, there are very few people who do not complain about their lives. We can even see many people willing to abandon their lives, even if all the laws of God and human laws are combined. Nothing can stop this chaos. I would like to continue to ask, has anyone heard of primitive people having these thoughts? Has anyone heard of primitive people complaining about life or sex when they have free time?

55. It is better for a child not to know a word than to sacrifice other useful things in order to learn this knowledge.

56. The reason why man is sociable is because of his weak body; the reason why we love mankind is because we share the same suffering; if we are not human, we have no responsibility to mankind. . Dependence on people is a sign of lack of strength: if everyone did not need help from others, we would not want to join forces with others at all.

57. As for me, when I want to learn something, it is to gain knowledge for myself rather than to educate others; I have always believed that in order to educate others, I must first have enough knowledge. ; and of all the learning that I have ever wanted to do in a crowd, there is almost nothing that I could not do alone on the desert island where I had planned to spend the rest of my life.

58. Wisdom and foolishness are like beautiful and evil foods, and the clumsiness of words is just like the fineness of cups and plates. Regardless of the fineness of cups and plates, they can hold these two types of food.

59. Wasting time is a great sin.

60. Anything that involves my felt needs will make me calm. Only when I completely put aside my own physical interests can I taste the true taste of such spiritual happiness. .

61. Virtue! Thou art the sublime science of the simple soul.

62. When we only encounter headwind sailing, we can adjust the course and drive in a roundabout way; but when the sea is rough and we want to stay where we are, we have to anchor. Beware, young helmsman, lest your ropes go loose, your anchor waver, or the ship drift away before you know it.

63. Remain trustful and silent to those I love.

64. We can let those who have nothing to do with us say whatever they like, but it is a crime to let a friend think that we have virtues that we do not have.

65. If there really is such a state in the world: the soul is very fulfilling and peaceful, neither missing the past nor expecting the future, letting time pass by and tightly grasping the present, no matter how long it lasts. Leaving behind a continuous trace, there is no sense of lack or enjoyment, neither happiness nor sorrow, nothing to seek or fear, but only the feeling of one's own existence. This feeling alone is enough to enrich our entire soul. ; As long as this state continues to exist, people in this state can say that they have achieved happiness - not incomplete, poor, and relative happiness, but complete, substantial, and free from the feeling of emptiness and lack in the soul. happiness.

66. I plan to do something unprecedented and unprecedented. I want to show a person’s true face in front of my compatriots, and that person is myself.

67. The king is far from being able to provide for his subjects. Instead, he can only obtain his own living support from his subjects; in Rabelais's words, the king cannot survive without having anything. Could it be that while the subjects were giving away their bodies, they were conditional on the king also seizing their property?

68. We must first distinguish between physical love and spiritual love. Physical love refers to the universal desire to combine the two sexes, while spiritual love limits the sexual desire to one. on a specific object, or at least make him focus more on a preferred object.

69. If you are unhappy, it’s time to change. Because doing meaningful things is itself the enjoyment of life.

70. Things that come from the hands of the Creator are all good, but once they reach the hands of humans, they all become bad.

71. Why should they elect a ruler if not to protect their life, liberty and property from oppression, that is, to protect the things that form the basis of their existence? Considering the relationship between people, the most unfortunate thing that can happen to a person is probably to let himself be at the mercy of others. Then, in order to let others protect his property, he gave away his only property to others from the beginning , isn’t this unreasonable? If he relinquishes power over himself to his leader, what reward will his leader get for him? If a leader is free to dispose of his property and his personal freedom on the pretext of protecting him, then he can reply with complete irony: "My enemies can only do this to me!" Therefore, there is no doubt that the people elected The leader is to protect his own freedom, not to enslave himself. This is the basic principle of all political and law enforcement.

72. Do not transfer your children. Children are born human and free; their freedom is their own. Except them. No one else has the right to deal with it.

73. People are born free, but they are always in shackles.

74. Without faith, there is no real virtue.

75. Law is the only driving force for the body. The body can only act and be felt by the law. Without law, the country that has been formed is just a soulless body. It exists but cannot act. Because it is not enough for everyone to obey the general will; in order to obey the general will, one must understand the general will. Then arose the necessity of law.

76. Except for not being allowed to love you anymore, I will resolutely carry out any order: even this one, if I can do it, I will carry it out.

77. As long as a teacher lies to a student once and reveals the truth, all his educational achievements may be destroyed.

78. Once the law loses its power, everything is in despair; as long as the law no longer has power, all legal things will no longer have power.

79. Every family is a small, united society, and freedom and mutual affection are their only bonds.

80. ** is by no means a relationship between people, but a relationship between countries; in **, individuals and individuals are by no means qualified as human beings, or even Not as a citizen, but only as a soldier, a country can become an enemy by chance; a country can only use other countries as its enemies, but not people.