A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. — 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
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires. — 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
We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is… — 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
Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one… — 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
