Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes & Quotations

Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

» We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

» It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

» 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.

» Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

» Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

» With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

» The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

» Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

» The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

» Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

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