Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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 am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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