Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

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.

A born king is a very rare being.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine, " and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Ah, ' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'("Queen Fantasque")

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.("The Queen Fantasque")

I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect.

Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.

To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

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 a fire is guilty of suicide?

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.