To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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