The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. - Jean Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. - Jean Jacques Rousseau