Character Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

...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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

“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

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

“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