It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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 may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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