Francois RABELAIS: We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Francois RABELAIS: There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Bertrand RUSSELL: Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand RUSSELL: There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.