Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it! — 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 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
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and… — 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
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