1. Warm friendship and a kind heart can comfort us when we are in pain. Even when we are happy, if there is no one to share our joy with, we will feel lonely and depressed.

2. Worldly and carnal thoughts are always distracting and disrupting our sweet feeling of living in the world.

3. All our wisdom cannot escape the prejudice of slaves. All our habits enslave us, bind us, suppress us. Civilized people are bound by slavery from birth to death.

4. The development of human intelligence should be mainly attributed to desire, and whether desire can be universally satisfied depends on the development of intelligence.

5. Those who want to discuss politics and morality separately will get nothing from either one.

6. To recognize the rights of the original owner of a certain piece of land, the following conditions must be met: First, the land has not been inhabited by anyone; second, people can only occupy it to maintain their own survival. The necessary amount; thirdly, people cannot occupy this land based on an empty ceremony, but must rely on labor and cultivation. This is the only sign that ownership can be respected by others when there is no legal basis.

7. As a kind of regulation, the law’s own binding force is weaker than desire. It can only restrict people but cannot change them.

8. The more people leave the world and the closer they are to themselves, the happier they will be.

9. The barbarian lives his own life, while the people in society are in panic all day long and only know how to live in the opinions of others. It can also be said that their views on the meaning of their own existence are all From the judgment of others.

10. Once a person becomes famous, he has no friends left. This is a great misfortune. What's especially unfortunate is that people who claim to be your friends also leave you.

11. 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.

12. Everyone is born free, but they are in shackles everywhere!

13. Because people don’t know good, they must be inherently evil. People are evil because they don’t know what good is; they won’t give any help to their companions because they think they don’t have it. Power asks him to help, or he thinks he is entitled to whatever it wants, or is even foolish enough to think he is master of the world.

14. People begin to compare different things, and unknowingly acquire the concept of beauty and value, and then develop a feeling of preference. Because they have to meet constantly, they can't bear the pain of not being able to see each other often. A gentle and pleasant feeling quietly enters their hearts. The slightest contradiction will cause strong dissatisfaction. Love arouses jealousy. Once lovers turn against each other, , life will become a sacrifice of tenderness.

15. Both the powerful and the weak regard their power and poverty as a right against their wealth. In their view, this right is a kind of property ownership. When equality is violated, the most terrible chaos ensues. The rich and the poor rob each other, and their unbridled desires suppress the voice of natural compassion, and also severely damage the very fragile justice. They bring people only greed, ambition and evil.

16. A child’s first step toward evil is probably because his originally kind nature has been led astray. Everyone has a few emotional pillars in their subconscious that come from their parents. If they are broken and not repaired in time, it will be too late by the time they collapse.

17. The earliest human feeling is his own existence, and his first concern is self-protection.

The produce of the earth provides him with what he needs, and his instinct tells him how to use these things. Hunger and other primitive desires make him experience different survival experiences at different times.

18. In order to prevent the social convention from becoming a dead letter, it naturally contains such a provision-only this provision can make other provisions effective-anyone who refuses to obey the public consciousness People, society must conform to his obedience to the official seal.

19. The most important educational principle is not to cherish time, but to waste it.

20. Like birds, we all have a season of molting, which is destined to be a turning point in our lives.

21. This is the first epoch-making change of mankind. Human beings established families and formed a certain form of private ownership, which also brought endless quarrels and conflicts to themselves.

22. Having given the human body the power of life and survival, now we need to let legislation give it action and will. Because the behavior of the body forming and combining does not determine what the body should do in order to maintain its own existence.

23. According to the laws of nature, a father is the master of his children only when they need his help. When the son grows up and becomes completely independent, he will be equal to the father and he will be responsible for the children. Fathers only have to respect but do not have to obey, because repaying kindness is a responsibility that one should fulfill and not a right that others can impose.

24. A civilized man will court the powerful men he hates and the rich men he despises. He constantly pursues the glory of serving these people; he shamelessly boasts about his spare parts and the shelter given to him by others. , he is proud to be a slave, and at the same time he mocks those who cannot enjoy this honor with contemptuous words.

25. The terms virtue and evil are concepts that target the collective and can only be produced through frequent contact between people.

26. Desire originates from our needs, and the development of desire also depends on the accumulation of our knowledge, because unless we know these concepts, or stem from simple impulses of nature, we will not like or Afraid of anything.

27. Selfishness is a kind of self-love, and compassion is a kind of love for others. If a person wants to be loved by others, he should first have the heart to love others.

28. Since sovereignty is nothing more than the application of public will, it can never be transferred; since the sovereign is just a collective life, he can only be allowed to represent himself. ; What can be transferred is power, not will.

29. 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.

30. We should also think about: in a certain world, people have to caress and hurt each other; because of obligations, people are born enemies; because of interests, people must deceive each other, how is this state of the world.

31. Barbarians are not evil because they do not know what good is. What hinders them from doing evil is not the development of wisdom and the constraints of the law, but emotional calm and ignorance of evil. For a person who is not the best, sin itself does not exist.

32. If a person is satisfied as long as he can live, he will live happily. The less we know how to endure, the more painful we feel.

33. Virtue! Thou art the sublime science of simple souls.

34. Civilized society has not only corrupted human health, but also corrupted human sincere feelings. Marriage is no longer based on pure love, but on interests.

35. Obey the law: Neither I nor anyone else can escape the glorious shackles of the law.

36. It can be said that taste is the microscope of appreciation.

37. 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.

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. Man is born free, but he wears shackles everywhere.

40. One of the most important tasks of government is to prevent extreme inequality in wealth distribution. This is not to take wealth from the rich, but to take away the means of accumulating wealth; it is not to set up workhouses for the poor, but to ensure that people are free from poverty.

41. No matter what is created by nature, it is good, but it becomes bad once it is in human hands.

42. Of course, a person will not take the happiness of the person he despises seriously. Therefore, you don’t have to be so surprised when you see politicians speaking with such contempt when they talk about the people, and when you see most philosophers insisting on speaking of human beings in such bad terms.

43. Throughout my life, I couldn’t bear to face the woman I was madly in love with. I couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, my mind was distracted, and my whole body was twitching, but I didn’t dare to make any mistakes. I have never expressed my feelings to them before, but I have never used the opportunity of my closest acquaintance to ask them for the only favor I need.

44. How can you restrain your actions and eyes when your heart is flying?

45. From the moment people need help from others, from the moment one person discovers the benefits of having two portions of food, equality ceases to exist and private ownership emerges. Labor became inevitable, the vast forests turned into lush fields that needed to be irrigated by human blood and sweat, and slavery and sorrow sprouted and grew along with the crops.

46. The most important thing in human life is labor training. It is impossible to have a normal human life without labor.

47. People are born free, but they are always in chains.

48. People who had been wandering in the jungle before began to settle down and gradually gathered to form various groups. Eventually, each region produced a specific ethnic group with the same personality and lifestyle. , and these ethnic groups are not maintained by decrees and laws, but by the same lifestyle, diet, and the influence of the same climate.

49. 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.

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

51. For law enforcement officers, he must exercise the power given to him by the client according to the will of the client, and in any case, they must put the interests of the public above the individual.

52. All human noble emotions and virtues of self-sacrifice originally originated from compassion.

53. To achieve something, to become an independent, self-reliant and consistent person, one must be consistent in his words and deeds. He must insist on the idea he should take, resolutely adhere to this idea, and implement it consistently. claim.

54. No benefit obtained through legal means is as good as the benefits obtained through illegal means. There is always more to be gained by harming others than by serving them. In doing so, the only thing to consider is how to avoid punishment. In order to achieve this goal, the strong will use all their strength, while the weak will use all their tricks.

55. Once this job is put aside, sometimes I am hesitant about what to do next, and this period of idle time can ruin me, because there is no external thing to occupy my energy. My thoughts just kept spinning on me.

56. 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 God's laws 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?

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

58. Emotions are more important than wisdom. Emotions can enrich wisdom just as they can enrich the heart.

59. When a person's wealth cannot affect others, his merits can give him an advantage, because merits bring natural prestige to people, or because of his older age, his life experience and the ability to make prudent decisions is also an advantage.

60. 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 taking away my life.

61. The governance of society should be based entirely on this common interest. People always want to be happy, but people don't always see happiness clearly.

62. To say that a person who lies is innocent and does not harm others, it is not enough to say that he has no intention of harming others. There is also a premise that must be affirmed, that is, regardless of the illusion he creates on the other party. How not to endanger themselves or others.

63. Has the opportunity come? I am nearly thirty years old and have spent half my life in silence.

64. Money is the seed of money. The first guinea (old British currency) is sometimes harder to obtain than the second million.

65. In fact, before the establishment of the law, if a person wanted to make another person who is equal to him obey him, he had no choice but to seize his property or give him a part of his property. There is no other way.

66. 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.

67. Children enjoy their father’s wealth simply because their father transfers power to them. However, children’s freedom as human beings is naturally endowed, and their parents have no right to deprive them of this freedom.

68. For the rich, once they experience the pleasure of domination, they will despise all other pleasures, just like a group of hungry wolves. Once they taste the taste of human flesh, they will never want to eat other food. . They used old slaves to possess new slaves, and they wanted nothing more than to conquer and enslave their neighbors.

69. No matter who you are, as long as my fate or trust makes you the judge of this book, I will use my misfortune to pass through your ancient path and implore you in the name of all mankind. Do not destroy this useful and original work, which may serve as the first reference for the study of man that has yet to be created; and I beg you, do not tear down this book in my memory. The only monument to my character that has not been distorted by my enemies.

70. Resentment is like a bag of dead rats. It is best to throw it far away.

71. 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.

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

73. In this sense, man can be called a half-god and half-animal animal. In him there is both noble divinity and despicable animality. Man is the product of the struggle between divinity and animal nature. It is a thrilling battle in which divinity constantly surpasses and purges animal nature.

74. I know my own heart and understand others well. I was born so different from anyone I met that I even dared to believe that there was no one born like me in the whole world. Although I am not better than others, at least I am different from them. Nature shaped me and then shattered the mold.

75. We often see people in the theater crying because of the unfortunate people they recruit into the play. However, if they become tyrants, they will only treat their enemies more cruelly.

76. The nature of things will not make us crazy, only bad intentions will make us so.

77. I have a feeling. This feeling may not be as strong as love, but it is a thousand times sweeter than love. It is sometimes connected with love, but often has nothing to do with love. This feeling is not just friendship, it is stronger and gentler than friendship.

78. If the sovereign demands more from one subject than another, things become individual and his power is no longer effective.

79. I have longed for the most beloved woman my whole life, but I dare not say anything in front of them.

80. To me, threats are more terrifying than blows. Once suffering comes, facts put aside the elements of imagination and return them to their true colors. I just felt like they were far less scary than I originally thought.

81. 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 best suited to his nature, he has to remain a bad man and suffer endlessly.

82. Before the establishment of the law, everyone is the only judge and avenger of his own injuries. In this way, the goodness required in the state of nature is no longer applicable to the newly born society. The collisions between people are becoming more and more frequent, and the methods of revenge are becoming more and more cruel. The fear of revenge has played the role of harsh laws.

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

84. Since no one has any natural authority over his own kind, and since force cannot produce any rights, only agreement can become the basis of all legal authority in the world.

85. When we forget ourselves, we are truly working for ourselves.

86. They believe that people are born with servility, because according to their observations, slaves seem to be able to endure slavery. However, they never thought that freedom, like simplicity and virtue, can only be understood by those who possess them, and when people lose them, they also lose interest in them.

87. The root of the difference between primitive people and civilized people is that primitive people only live in their own world, while civilized people have always lived outside their own world. They only know how to behave according to other people’s world. Willing to live, so that it seems that only other people's evaluation of him can reflect the meaning of his own existence.

88. The establishment of a political organization is regarded as a real contract between the people and their elected leaders. Both of them bind themselves to abide by the laws stipulated in it, and this law is the link between them. of ties.

89. I was captured by snacks at the age of ten, by my lover at the age of twenty, by happiness at the age of thirty, by ambition at the age of forty, and by greed at the age of fifty. When can people pursue wisdom?

90. Force does not mean rights, but only legal power can create obligations.

91. Human beings have unconsciously acquired a vague idea of ??mutual obligations and the benefits of fulfilling such obligations.