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 More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they. Jean-Jacques Rousseau menpeacethinking I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophicalhatebook Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau definitionsusewould-be An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau intelligentselfphilosophy A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. Jean-Jacques Rousseau silencemenknowledge Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good. Jean-Jacques Rousseau loud-voicesbookhands Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau readingmenpeople This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau dognames Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Jean-Jacques Rousseau spurssoulpeople I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer. Jean-Jacques Rousseau punishmentshould-haveliars Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau souldoubtorder In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau selfishnesshelpingfirsts Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they. Jean-Jacques Rousseau arguingheartmen As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. Jean-Jacques Rousseau longpeopleworld There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? Jean-Jacques Rousseau social-contractdungeonsenough Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Jean-Jacques Rousseau weddingweedfunny To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau eatingreasonmay The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation. Jean-Jacques Rousseau tonebrilliantgay I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor. Jean-Jacques Rousseau lastseuropethinking She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her Jean-Jacques Rousseau shoesunattractiveties
