Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI may be no better, but at least I am different.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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