Jean-Jacques Rousseau said this quote

“ What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time, and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue, ours speak only of commerce and money. ”

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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau