I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

In civilized life where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.