Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Citations en anglais (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“Trust your heart rather than your head.”

“The truth brings no man a fortune.”

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

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

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

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

“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.”

“There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.”

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”

“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”

“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”

“Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.”

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”

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