To do is to be.
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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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