Jean-Jacques Rousseau — "To be truly free, we must be free from dependence on the opinions of others."

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

"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."

"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…"

"Laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing."

"Civilization is a thin and precarious crust, which can be broken through at any moment by the earthquake from below."