However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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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 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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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