In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBeing 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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