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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?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Even knaves may be made good for something.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Posterity is always just.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who blushes is already guilty.
— Jean-Jacques 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
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
— 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
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing on this earth is worth
buying at the price of human blood. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
buying at the price of human blood. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
— 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
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No one is happy unless he respects himself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
— 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
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
— 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
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Trust your heart rather than your head.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
— 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
It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money is the seed of money.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not breathing it is action.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My birth was my first misfortune.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature wants children to be children before men ... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3)
— 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
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
— 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
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
To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.
— 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
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
— 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
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.
("The Queen Fantasque") — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
("The Queen Fantasque") — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Living is not breathing but doing.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau