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 ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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.
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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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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