“All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.] — 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
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies… — 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 Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
