Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Quotes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Quotes 23

Reading solitude idleness a soft and sedentary life intercourse with...

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Virtue is a state of war and to live in it we have always to combat with...

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations but truth has only one mode of...

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no...

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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Money is the seed of money and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult...

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for...

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Although modesty is natural to man it is not natural to children. Modesty...

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.

People who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say...

God made me and broke the mold.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Do I dare set forth here the most important the most useful rule of all...

We are born weak we need strength helpless we need aid foolish we need...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate...

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

O love if I regret the age when one savors you it is not for the hour of...