Geert Goossens

“Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
― Rousseau