Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

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

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

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

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.”

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

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

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

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

“Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.”

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

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”

“Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”