Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.