Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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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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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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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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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.
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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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Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.
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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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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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All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
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Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.