Jean Jacques Rousseau: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”

“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”

“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.”

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

“The truth brings no man a fortune.”

“Trust your heart rather than your head.”

“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.”

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

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

“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”

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

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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