79 result(s) for Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes.
"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery."
"The less secure a man is, the more prone he is to fear and cruelty."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness."
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."
"We boast of being able to do all things by help of nature, but it is nature that does everything."
"It is unnatural to declare war on another for one's own glory."
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"If I am what I am, I am a philosopher."
"The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society."
"When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."
"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right and obedience into duty."
"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"The less you think, the more you talk."
"Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man."
"A feeble body weakens the mind."
"To have a better society, we must be better people."
"The more we love, the less we understand."
"One must choose between doing what others say the right thing and doing what one knows is the right thing."
"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"Man is good by nature, but society corrupts him."
"The misfortunes of mankind are produce of their own conduct."
"Money buys everything, except morality and citizens."
"One who cannot tolerate evil should not be bound by ties of affection and gratitude."
"The greatest evil society can inflict on an individual is to isolate him from itself."
"The person who is master of their passions can always say, 'I am as happy as it is possible to be.'"
"The stronger the belief, the greater the success."
"Our affections are our life, we exist by them, we will die by them."
"Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself."
"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."
"The strongest man is he who stands most alone."
"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written."
"Laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing."
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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"Man is everywhere in chains."
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
"Ignorance is the first cause of oppression."
"There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom."
"Anything that doesn't kill you simply makes you...stranger."
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
"It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful."
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
"Love of country is often another name for hatred of other countries."
"To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself madness."
"However great a man's natural talents, the act of writing cannot be taught."
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"Man is a free agent, but he is not a free agent to be happy."
"Happiness is a good that does not exist, just as pain is a good that does not exist."
"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into thoughts."
"The one thing we owe to the grave is the truth."
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent, and will have no imitator."
"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things which we know nothing about."
"The wise man is always striving for harmony between thought and action."
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences."
"I prefer to be mad with the truth than sane with lies."
"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This is mine,' and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society."
"Change is the end result of all true learning."
"We are all born with the seeds of greatness within us."
"To live is not to breathe but to act."
"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."
"The only way to deal with the past is to accept it."
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
"He who is most patient is most wise."
"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces."
"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure."
"A man can only become wise by listening to his own wisdom."
"There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom."
"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness."
"The noblest work in education is to make a reasoning animal live well."
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