Jean-Jacques Rousseau — "The greatest evil is not to be good, but to be bad when one has the power to be …"

"It is not good for man to be alone; and I say it is not good for him to be a philosopher."

"It is precisely because the force of things always tends to destroy equality that the force of legislation must always tend to maintain it."

"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

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

"Women do wrong to complain of the inequality of man-made laws; this inequality is not of man's making, or at any rate it is not the result of mere prejudice, but of reason."