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People who know little are us...

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Falsehood has an infinity of ...

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Heroes are not known by the l...

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

To endure is the first thing ...

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

People who know little are us...

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Laws are always useful to tho...

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Luxury either comes of riches...

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I think we cannot too strongl...

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Plants are shaped by cultivat...

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Teach your scholar to observe...

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

In all the ills that befall u...

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Conscience is the voice of th...

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The falsification of history ...

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

I would rather be a man of pa...

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Reason deceives us; conscienc...

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Man is born free and everywhe...

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

The mind grows narrow in prop...

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

No true believer could be int...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Whoever blushes is already gu...

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

Remorse sleeps during prosper...

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 486 quotes

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