Jean Jacques Rousseau
50 quotations
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.