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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do you not know ... that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown
— Honore De Balzac
To live in darkness is to surrender to madness, to hide behind light is to ignore the blight, walk the road between and your worries will go unseen.
— Ryan J Rousseau
There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires.
— Alain De Botton
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The general will is always right.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not breathing it is action.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau