Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
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"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"All that time is lost which might be better employed."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"A feeble body weakens the mind."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I may not amount to much but at least I am unique."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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