Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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28 June, 1712
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02 July, 1778
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