The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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 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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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