One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau vanitymadmen Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau atmosphereprosperitysleep Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. Jean-Jacques Rousseau singingdancingsuccess Innocence is ashamed of nothing. Jean-Jacques Rousseau innocenceashamed Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau eulogyagemen The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain. Jean-Jacques Rousseau gunpowderlostpeople Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma. Jean-Jacques Rousseau coffeehousedoors The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. Jean-Jacques Rousseau independencemenhands There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties. Jean-Jacques Rousseau selfhelpingmen A person who can break wind is not dead. Jean-Jacques Rousseau breakpersonswind A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau womenhusbandchildren No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau atheismatheistlaw By doing good we become good. Jean-Jacques Rousseau doing-goodgood-and-evilevil Posterity is always just. Jean-Jacques Rousseau posterityreputation Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau technologytoolsuse I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau world-sufferingtoo-muchthis-world The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. Jean-Jacques Rousseau combinationgovernmentcircumstances Girls must be thwarted early in life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau british-historygirl We do not know what really good or bad fortune is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau bad-fortunefortuneknows Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath. Jean-Jacques Rousseau souldoubtbelieve
