Top 69 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

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.

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.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

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

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

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

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.