Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes Born: 06/28/1712 Died: 07/02/1778 Country: france

• Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [conscience/soul & body]
• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [men/bad/more/more]
• Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [day/sound/willpower/thoughts]
• It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [english/people/people/moment]
• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [men/order/right]
• Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [power]
• Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [fame/people]
• Base souls have no faith in great individuals. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [faith]
• A feeble body weakens the mind. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [soul & body/mind]
• Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [happiness]
• The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [english/think]
• Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [guilt/shame]
• Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [people/remember]
• The 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) [soul & body/human/soul & body/destruction]
• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [virtue]
• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [right]
• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [bad/fortune]
• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [right/life/order]
• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [willpower]
• Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [bad]
• Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• To live is not breathing it is action. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [action]
• The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
• Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [patience]

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