The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau