Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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