How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession. Jean-Jacques Rousseau constitutioncommunitygiving Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists. Jean-Jacques Rousseau be-goodevilheart Equality, because without it there can be no liberty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau liberty Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. Jean-Jacques Rousseau exceedunlimitedrights I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalswagsaid If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. Jean-Jacques Rousseau sanegodpeople It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau natureheartlife The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ruinseasechildren The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places. Jean-Jacques Rousseau charactermenchildren Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau womenbluelong Base souls have no faith in great individuals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau individualsoulfaith At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau airspringmen The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust. Jean-Jacques Rousseau unjustpoliticalbody And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians? Jean-Jacques Rousseau humanityfeetamerica To live is not breathing it is action. Jean-Jacques Rousseau breathingactionlife He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by. Jean-Jacques Rousseau eyelittlespay I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily. Jean-Jacques Rousseau sincerelyventureable The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights. Jean-Jacques Rousseau citizenskindrights At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau perfectmencountry Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau vanitymadmen
