Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.
Jean-Jacques RousseauDo I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNo true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau