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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Adversity
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Age
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Birth
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Children
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Conscience
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Cowardice/Weakness
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Doctors
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Education
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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
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Endurance
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Enjoyment
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Evil
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Faith
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Fame
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Forgiveness
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Fortune
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Freedom
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Goodness
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Books by and about Jean Jacques Rousseau