Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts? Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau atmosphere prosperity sleep Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. Jean-Jacques Rousseau singing dancing success Innocence is ashamed of nothing. Jean-Jacques Rousseau innocence ashamed 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 eulogy age men 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 gunpowder lost people 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 coffee house doors 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 independence men hands 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 self helping men A person who can break wind is not dead. Jean-Jacques Rousseau break persons wind A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau women husband children 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 atheism atheist law By doing good we become good. Jean-Jacques Rousseau doing-good good-and-evil evil Posterity is always just. Jean-Jacques Rousseau posterity reputation 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 technology tools use I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau world-suffering too-much this-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 combination government circumstances Girls must be thwarted early in life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau british-history girl We do not know what really good or bad fortune is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau bad-fortune fortune knows 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 soul doubt believe Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man? Jean-Jacques Rousseau simple mean book
