Jean-Jacques Rousseau — "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"The people, being subject to the laws, ought to be the author of them."

"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…"

"My greatest fault has been to be too easily led, and my greatest virtue to have always recognized and avoided the errors into which I was led."

"The most dangerous of all sentiments is the one which makes us say, 'It's none of my business.'"

"The general will is always right and tends to the public advantage; but it does not follow that the deliberations of the people are always equally correct."