Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quotations
-
“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“We 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 Rousseau
-
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“God made me and broke the mold.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-
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. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
View More Quotations – By Author.
View More Quotations – By Topic.
Home.