Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless. – 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