The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique. Jean-Jacques Rousseau being-unique unique may Days of absence, sad and dreary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau missing-you i-miss-you love O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau regret age birthday As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares. Jean-Jacques Rousseau lakes islands night Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow. Jean-Jacques Rousseau increase consolation sorrow The world is woman's book. Jean-Jacques Rousseau femme book world Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau birth given needs I do not know is a phrase which becomes us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau phrases knows knowledge There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau vanity fool men To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. Jean-Jacques Rousseau humanity rights men I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake". Jean-Jacques Rousseau princess cake bread The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. Jean-Jacques Rousseau majesty scripture heart The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. Jean-Jacques Rousseau hero would-be character Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosopher philosophical desire Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment. Jean-Jacques Rousseau desire men children Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau equality abuse practice It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ridiculous criminals courage Childhood is the sleep of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau childhood reason sleep Anticipation and Hope are born twins. Jean-Jacques Rousseau born anticipation twins If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state. Jean-Jacques Rousseau vanity christian law
