Go into the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Children's lies are therefore entirely the work of their teachers, and to teach them to speak the truth is nothing less than to teach them the art of lying. In your zeal to rule, control, and teach them, you never find sufficient means at your disposal. You wish to gain fresh influence over their minds by baseless maxims, by unreasonable precepts; and you would rather they knew their lessons and told lies, than leave them ignorant and truthful.

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.