People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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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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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.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To do is to be.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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