Jean-Jacques Rousseau — "The truth is not in books, but in nature."

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

"The savage lives within himself; the social man lives always outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others."

"We are born weak, we need strength; we are born helpless, we need aid; we are born 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 edu…"

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."