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“The 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

Source: Emile or On Education

“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“As 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.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Confessions

Source: Confessions

“The truth brings no man a fortune.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Trust your heart rather than your head.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“… in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Source: The Social Contract and Discourses

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau book Confessions

Variant translation: It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
Source: Confessions

“I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Book I, I
Context: I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.