That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPlants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau