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
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. — 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
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. — 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
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of… — 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
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
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield… — 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
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
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware… — 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
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
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
Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — 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
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
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
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears… — 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
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that… — 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
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals… — 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
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
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
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
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
...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
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
