Jean-Jacques Rousseau

''I only see clearly what I remember.''

''It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.''

''I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.''

''I may be no better, but at least I am different.''

''I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.''

''The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.''

''There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, "Is it good in itself?" In the second, "Can it be easily put into practise?"''

''We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.''

''We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.''

''Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.''