Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
-
-
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
To do is to be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Every artists wants to be applauded
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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 prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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