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
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different. — 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
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — 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
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — 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
