Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes:
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source: Britannica
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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