Top 69 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

God made me and broke the mold.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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 from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.