Jacques Rousseau

Living is not breathing but doing.

Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.

Socrates died like a philosopher; Jesus Christ died like a God.