Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. Jean-Jacques Rousseau firefighterherosports I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau superstitionssupportthinking Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau atheismchristianreligion A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature. Jean-Jacques Rousseau motivationalmenmoving Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young. Jean-Jacques Rousseau usemindmen Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau comebackinsult-to-injuryargument [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.] Jean-Jacques Rousseau examplemaythinking To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires. Jean-Jacques Rousseau desiregivingmen War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures. Jean-Jacques Rousseau soldiermenwar The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau covenantmaymen Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalfaithlife There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau subjectionappearanceperfect In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home. Jean-Jacques Rousseau blowhomefall The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. Jean-Jacques Rousseau pursuemoneygiving The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. Jean-Jacques Rousseau occupationsolitudewant Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wake-upadversitysleep To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws. Jean-Jacques Rousseau independentpassionmen Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau rascalsbelieverreligious Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. Jean-Jacques Rousseau fall-backteachfall Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalcutelife
