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Happiness Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

19 Happiness quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau’s 19 reflections weave together the natural and the social, suggesting that true happiness blooms when we align personal freedom with communal harmony. His Enlightenment‑era prose feels fresh, prompting you to question how modern life either nurtures or hinders that balance.

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Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

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

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One is only happy before he is happy

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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

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No one is happy unless he respects himself.

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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the…

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“I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.”

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“Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.”

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Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in…

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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it…

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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to…

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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,…

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“How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the…

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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could…

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“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some…

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“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being…

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

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“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people…

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