90 Quotations by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 41. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
- 42. Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
- 43. Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec ...
- 44. Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they ...
- 45. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
- 46. Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
- 47. Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
- 48. Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
- 49. Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
- 50. Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
- 51. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- 52. Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
- 53. Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, the ...
- 54. Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
- 55. Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
- 56. Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- 57. Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
- 58. Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
- 59. The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries within ...
- 60. The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes by Power Quotations
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