Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUGirls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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