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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWe cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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.
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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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