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 ROUSSEAUTo live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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