Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world?
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
He who wills the end, wills the means also, and the means must involve some risks, and even some losses.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
How many centuries must have elapsed before men reached the point of seeing any other fire than that in the sky?
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child
the most important lesson for every time of life
is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
the most important lesson for every time of life
is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Nature wants children to be children before men ... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.