Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

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

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean Jacques Rousseau