We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid 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 education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on strength
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on truth
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on war
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau on wisdom
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on women