Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, 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.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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