More From Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- "Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
- "No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
- "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
More In Patience
- "And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy."― Janet Napolitano
- "Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age."― Elliot Paul
- "Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one’s patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days."― Joshua Slocum