Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
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The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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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.
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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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A person who can break wind is not dead.
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To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
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[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.
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A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.