Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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By doing good we become good.
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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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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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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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Girls must be thwarted early in life.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.
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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.
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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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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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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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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.
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In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.
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I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.