Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

"The worst is the fear of the worst."

"True happiness consists in goodwill."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"The child who has not been cherished does not cherish himself."

"Virtue is a state of war and requires training."

"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery."

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die."

"Good social institutions are those that best know how to denature man."

"The moment a man ceases to dream, he ceases to live."

"To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act."

"Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Creator."

"The function of imagination is not to resolve the conflict but to elude it."

"Beware of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."

"Perfect societies never exist, but we can perfect our efforts."

"The man who loves only himself and no one else is truly poor."

"Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

"True strength comes from within, not from without."

"Faith is the morality of the mind."

"We are dying from civility."

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

"Reading is dangerous because it fills the mind with ideas."

"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but he who seems thus to himself."

"Compassion is the surest path to virtue."

"Time heals all wounds, but only if we allow it."

"The beautiful is like the sublime, but not the same."

"All legitimate political authority comes from a social contract."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."