Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOr, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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My 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.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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My 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.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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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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