Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Finance is a slave's word. Jean-Jacques Rousseau finance slave I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it! Jean-Jacques Rousseau unity i-can knows 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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau educational important education Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau adversity insomnia sleep With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wise men children Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. Jean-Jacques Rousseau punishment government war At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake". Jean-Jacques Rousseau princess cake country Supreme happiness consists in self-content. Jean-Jacques Rousseau supreme self happiness Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. Jean-Jacques Rousseau genius knowledge art 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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau aim projects writing We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophical sympathy philosophy The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before. Jean-Jacques Rousseau uniting government may Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere. Jean-Jacques Rousseau liberty heart men The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived. Jean-Jacques Rousseau deceived people It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. Jean-Jacques Rousseau oneself desire believe It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. Jean-Jacques Rousseau concern host mind The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.' Jean-Jacques Rousseau naked middle red It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau food giving book Every artists wants to be applauded Jean-Jacques Rousseau artist want An honest man nearly always thinks justly. Jean-Jacques Rousseau honesty men thinking