Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being…

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long…

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to…

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men…

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death…

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little…

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves…

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to…

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these…

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins…

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone…

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason…

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for…

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all…

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator…