Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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    Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

    Obedience | Force | Powers


    Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

    Perpetual | Affections | Flux


    Childhood is the sleep of reason.

    Sleep | Childhood | Reason


    I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

    Aim | Others | Project


    I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

    Nature | Precedent | Resolved


    Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

    Chains | Born | Free


    It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

    Difficult | Earning | Thinks


    When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

    Defeat | Happens | Either


    Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

    Knowledge | Evil | Modesty


    Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

    Religious | Believers


    However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

    Great | Talent | Act


    The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

    Step | Mystery | Reason


    We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

    Good | Fortune


    The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

    Time | Training | Waste


    Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

    Youth | Impossible | Grow


    Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

    Greatest | Flow | Ourselves


    All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

    Fellows


    The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

    Richest | Lived


    Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

    Innocence | Guilty | Ashamed


    Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

    Greatest | Heroes | Cowards


       

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