The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe 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 RousseauReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau