One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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