The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTruth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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