Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques RousseauGood laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques RousseauFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques RousseauVirtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
Jean-Jacques RousseauI hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSociety's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAt sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHow many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques RousseauOrdinary 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.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMan was born free, but is everywhere in bondage.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAn honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques RousseauGeneral and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWatch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
Jean-Jacques RousseauPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOne loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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