Jean-Jacques Rousseau — "The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs."

"Every sentiment of love is a sentiment of pleasure."

"A man who has been aroused by a woman's modesty will be more deeply moved by her charms."

"To be loved is to be useful, to be useful is to be loved."

"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."

"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."