Top 69 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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.

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

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.