Quotes by Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on nations   

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on patience
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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on philosophers and philosophy   

"There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?"

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on projects   

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on promises   

"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on repentance   

"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on risk   

"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."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on secrets   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on silence   

"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on slavery
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on speakers and speaking   

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"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on suffering
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"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on birth   

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"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on sympathy   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth   

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on truth   

"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uniqueness
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on virtue   

"As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on wealth   

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on wisdom
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"A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on words
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on work   

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on children   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on children   

"Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on confession   

"It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on confession   

"Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on science   

"With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on correction   

"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on war   

"Cities are the abyss of the human species. "

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uncategorised   

"Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god. "

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on uncategorised