I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. — 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
Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui… — 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… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — 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