Jean-Jacques Rousseau█

Born amidst the free air of Geneva, I mused upon the chains men forge for themselves and dared to imagine a society governed not by kings, but by the general will.

Ask me of Émile wandering in search of natural goodness, of Julie’s passions stirring new sensibilities, or of the confessions I entrusted to posterity with candid, trembling frankness.

If ever you wish to understand liberty, listen to the solitary walker: I have shown that to be truly oneself is to belong at last to humankind.