Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - BrainyQuote

French - Philosopher June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

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

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

Patience Fruit Sweet

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insults Wrong Who

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

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

Imagination World Reality

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wisdom Great Kindness

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men Man Authority

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

Action Minority Majority

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

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

Nature Never Us

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness Good Bank

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

Freedom Free Remember

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

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

Great Men Brainy

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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Forget Land Fruits

I may be no better, but at least I am different. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I may be no better, but at least I am different. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I Am Better May

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man Free Chains

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing True Guilty

Childhood is the sleep of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Childhood Sleep Reason

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Death Silence Sadness

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

Difficult Living Only

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

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

Alone Gardening Your

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

Free Election Parliament

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

Hate Nothing Know

God made me and broke the mold. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God made me and broke the mold. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Thankful Gratitude Duty

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education Strength Man

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Slow Performance Faithful

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

Person Who Years

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

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

Obedience Right Only

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children Taste Teach

A feeble body weakens the mind. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A feeble body weakens the mind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fitness Mind Body

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

Truth Only Infinity

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

Always Will Well

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love Age Regret

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

Knowledge Man Evil

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

Money Difficult Sometimes

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Flow Greatest Evils

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

Time Training Children

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

Faith Great Base

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

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

Good Always Will

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature Myself Man

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War Always Live

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Know Will First

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

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

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

Famous Day Long

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

Adversity Prosperity Consciousness

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

People Fame Breath

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Religious Believers Rascals

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Defeat Happens Something

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Others Only Pity

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

Cowards Heroes Greatest

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

Step Mystery Innocent

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

Knowledge Desire Pleasure

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Explain Exist Shared

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education Time Important

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

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

Always True Said

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

Impossible Youth Grow

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

Great Man Talent

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