Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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Oh providence! Oh nature! Treasure of the poor, resource of the unfortunate. The person who feels, knows your holy laws and trusts them, the person whose heart is at peace and whose body does not suffer, thanks to you is not entirely prey to adversity.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
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He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.