“All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard,… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete,… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
