Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its… — 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
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — 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
