Related:

• One half of the children born die before their eighth year.
  This is nature's law; why try to contradict it?...
• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Emile, ou de l'education", 1762...
• There is not much to choose between a woman who deceives us for another, and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
  -- Augie...
• Reason deceives use often; conscience never. -- Rousseau
• The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
  -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
• All that time is lost which might be better employed. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
• It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau...
• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau