Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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