Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMy 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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