Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
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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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Days of absence, sad and dreary,Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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By doing good we become good.
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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.