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All Quotes by author - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "

" A feeble body weakens the mind. "

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

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

" Base souls have no faith in great individuals. "

" Childhood is the sleep of reason. "

" Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. "

" Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. "

" Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? "

" Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. "

" Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. "

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

" Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. "

" God made me and broke the mold. "

" Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. "

" Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. "

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

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

" How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? "

" I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. "

" I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. "

" 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. "

" I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects. "

" I may be no better, but at least I am different. "

" Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. "

" I only see clearly what I remember. "

" It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. "

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

" It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. "

" 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. "

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