Jean Jacques Rousseau
50 quotations
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
To live is not breathing it is action.
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.