I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Suffer, die, or get better; but whatever you do, live while you are alive.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved… — 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
