Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

“Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education.”

“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”

“The general will alone can direct the State according to the object for which it was instituted, which is the common good.”

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

“To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness.”

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.”

“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.”

“Every man has a right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.”