Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be truly free, we must obey only those laws we have prescribed for ourselves.

A good father is a hundred schoolmasters.

The man who has lived most is not he who has counted most years, but he who has most felt life.

All my misfortunes come from my having loved too much, and having been too much loved.

The most useful and honorable science is that of man; the most useful book, the one that makes us know ourselves.

Everything is in a state of flux on this earth. Nothing keeps a form for long, and our affections, which are attached to external things, pass and change as they do.

It is by the passion of love that the sexes are drawn together, and by the passion of love that they are distinguished.

Nature has made me unique. If I am not better than others, at least I am different.

The truth is not in books, but in nature.

I know what is good, and I do it not; I know what is evil, and I follow it.

It is in the heart of man that the true source of both good and evil resides.

There are no morals in nature.

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

The only good political institutions are those which are capable of making a people change, and of inspiring in them a love of virtue.

The most dangerous of all enterprises is to make a man think.

It is not enough to be happy, one must also be seen to be happy.

To be loved is to be useful, to be useful is to be loved.

The world is the book of women; everything they know, they have learned from it.

There is no original sin, except that of being born.

The most important, most useful, and most neglected branch of education is that which teaches us to know ourselves.