Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes

Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me' the State may be given up for lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau