Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
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All that time is lost which might be better employed.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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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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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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Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?