Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau