Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Our country cannot well subsist without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Living is not breathing but doing.
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Wisdom is so nearly allied to happiness, that the two objects are confounded.
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!
I only see clearly what I remember.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
