The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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 may be no better, but at least I am different.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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