Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties -… — 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
“I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not mind; this short life counts for too little… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are,… — 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
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The extreme inequalities in the manner of living of the several classes of mankind, the excess of idleness in some, and of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man’s constitution in this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to feel the drunkenness that this agitated, tumultuous life plunges you into. With such a multitude of objects passing… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. — 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
