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Reading, solitude, idleness, a...

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I undertake the same project a...

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I have resolved on an enterpri...

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The first step towards vice is...

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

There are times when I am so u...

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 486 quotes

Once you teach people to say w...

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

One loses all the time which h...

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

One must choose between making...

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

All that time is lost which mi...

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The thirst after happiness is ...

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

We do not know what really goo...

We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Patience patience quotes is bi...

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Christ preaches only servitude...

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

You are worried about seeing h...

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The English people believes it...

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 486 quotes

As long as there are rich peop...

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Remorse sleeps during a prospe...

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

If Socrates died like a philos...

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Government originated in the a...

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Beware of listening to this im...

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

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