Author of quotes: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The true founder of civil society was the one who first fenced off his piece of land and dared to say: "this is mine."

A man says what he knows, a woman says what he likes; the first, to speak, needs knowledge, the second - in taste; the first should mean useful things, the second - pleasant.

A man philosophizes about the human heart better than a woman, but a woman reads better than him in the hearts of men.

The great secret of education is the ability to ensure that bodily and mental exercises always serve as rest for one another.

An hour of work will teach more than a day of explanations, for if I keep a child in a workshop, his hands work in favor of his mind: he becomes a philosopher, considering himself only a craftsman.

The law of necessity from an early age teachs a person to do what he does not like, in order to prevent evil that would not be even more to his liking.

We care more about life as it loses its value; the old regret it more than the young.

Reason shows us the goal, and passions lead us away from it.

People, be human! This is your first duty. Be that way for all conditions, for all ages, for everything that is not alien to man.

Nothing mighty, nothing great can come out of a corrupt pen.

The first reward of justice is the awareness that they have done the right thing.

Hula is a very convenient thing: they attack with one word, but whole pages are needed to defend.

Half a life is not enough to write a good book, and another to fix it.

The false can appear in endless combinations, but the truth exists only in one form.