It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLaws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThere is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau