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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUQuit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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