Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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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 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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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 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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