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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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
("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
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
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
"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