Jean Jacques Rousseau quotes

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

We 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 education.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Do 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.

We 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 education.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.