A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean Jacques Rousseau

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.
Jean Jacques Rousseau