Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,