Famous Quotes / Jean Jacques Rousseau
90 Quotations by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 61. The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi ...
- 62. The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
- 63. The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal s ...
- 64. The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
- 65. The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
- 66. The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleas ...
- 67. The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest ex ...
- 68. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
- 69. The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into rig ...
- 70. The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
- 71. The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it"
- 72. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
- 73. There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, "Is it good in ...
- 74. There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
- 75. Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
- 76. Those that are slowest in making a promise are the most faithful at performing it.
- 77. To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need ...
- 78. To live is not breathing, it is action.
- 79. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its dut ...
- 80. Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.