People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEverything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau