Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Reading, 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."