The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
