The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAbstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThat man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
Jean-Jacques RousseauUsurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau