Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The sciences, letters, and arts...stifle in every heart the sentiment of nature.

Our material condition is poverty; our spiritual is vanity.

The more one reflects, the more one is struck by the singularity of those who complain.

Man's wealth is in his mind, not in his pocket.

I would rather be a happy slave than a miserable freeman.

The truth is received in proportion to the square of its beauty.

Liberty is not found in any form of government; it is in the heart of the free man.

To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.

I have always believed that the best thing to do is to live simply.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The happiest is he who suffers the least.

In all the known societies, the lot of the poor is miserable.

The progress of the arts and sciences has not only not contributed to the purification of morals, but has facilitated their corruption.

I die innocent; let posterity judge me.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Absolute silence leads to prudence.