Jean-Jacques RousseauThe greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.371Time
Jean-Jacques RousseauTo write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.372Love
Jean-Jacques RousseauDo I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.361Time
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.361Philosophy
Jean-Jacques RousseauAll that time is lost which might be better employed. ✨ A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use. Book by David Evans Macdonnel, 1809.372ReadingTime
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.362Reflection
Jean-Jacques RousseauTo endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.362Life
Jean-Jacques RousseauNature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.362Sadness
Jean-Jacques RousseauFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.362Truth
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of educat… ▶351Politics
Jean-Jacques RousseauMan was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.373Thought
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be abs… ▶352Humanity
Jean-Jacques RousseauA born king is a very rare being.352Philosophy
Jean-Jacques RousseauI prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.331Truth
Jean-Jacques RousseauI would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Lawrence Archer (1964). Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selec… ▶364Politics
Jean-Jacques RousseauI do not know is a phrase which becomes us. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education331Love
Jean-Jacques RousseauNothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.353LovePolitics
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.343Death
Jean-Jacques RousseauForce does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.376DeathPolitics
Jean-Jacques RousseauEverything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). Emile: selections… ▶321Thought
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.354Humanity
Jean-Jacques RousseauAs soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost. ✨ Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)343Politics
Jean-Jacques RousseauLeave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with… ▶366LoveTruth
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ✨ Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.311LifeReadingThought
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). Emile: Or, On Education, p.217, Basic Books333ReadingTruth
Jean-Jacques RousseauYou are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will… ▶333Life
Jean-Jacques RousseauEverything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as… ▶323HopeLoveTime
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody. ✨ Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). Emile, p.1… ▶367LifeTime
Jean-Jacques RousseauHow many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?334Death
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. ✨ Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). The Socia… ▶378DeathHumanityPolitics
