Jean-Jacques Rousseau — "If I am not better, at least I am different."

"There is no true happiness without virtue."

"To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of our existence. The man who has lived most i…"

"I hate those who are always right and always wrong."

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."

"Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature; but everything degenerates in the hands of man."