Quotes by Rousseau, Jean Jacques

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on age and aging
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"Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on doctors   

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on education   

"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on elections   

"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on endurance
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on joy   

"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on evil
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"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on faith   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on fame   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on fortune   

"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom   

"Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom
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"Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom   

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom   

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on goodness   

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on government   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on gratitude
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"Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on greatness   

"Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on guilt   

"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on happiness   

"A feeble body weakens the mind."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on health   

"Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on art   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on heroes and heroism   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on heroes and heroism   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on insults   

"The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on integrity
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"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on judgment and judges
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"Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on laughter   

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on life
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"To live is not breathing it is action."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on life   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on love   

"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on marriage   

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on men   

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on modesty   

"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on money
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"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on motivation   

"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on nationalities and nationalism