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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?"
"Centuries of practice? — Heather R. Blair

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — 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

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste 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

The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even knaves may be made good for something. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Posterity is always just. — 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

Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?"
Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams. — Henri Rousseau

Confusion has always surrounded Rousseau's political ideas because he was in many respects an inconsistent and contradictory — Paul Johnson

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

Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault. — 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

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Poetic Verse by — 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

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — 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

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

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

Trust your heart rather than your head. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cities are the sinks of the human race. — Henri Rousseau

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri 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

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri 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

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one. — 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

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

The general will is always right. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. — David Hume

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

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains. — 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

Abstract truth is the eye of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money is the seed of money. — 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

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it. — Kenneth Waltz

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S. — Lovell Rousseau

The world is woman's book. — 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

Finance is a slave's word. — 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

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not breathing it is action. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Savage man, once he has eaten, is at peace with all of nature and the friend of all his fellow humans. Is — 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

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Living is not breathing but doing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. — 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

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [ ... ] — David Hume

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

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice. — Henri 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

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's the accent. Women always swoon for an accent." I rolled my eyes.
"And does the accent work on you? — Nichole Chase

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

There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires. — Alain De Botton

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — 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

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

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

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau