A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau