Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes (175 Quotes)


    The key advantage for this company is that, even in a difficult environment, they make money.

    Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.


    To live is not merely to breathe it is to act it is to make use of our organs, senses, facultiesof all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.



    It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

    Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.



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

    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.






    As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

    Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.


    Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

    The recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico highlighted that crude oil prices are following those of gasoline and other refined products. Given our analysis that shows global refining capacity only increasing by 4.3 million bpd (5) by 2010, we expect this pattern to continue in the coming years, supporting high prices.

    Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

    Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.

    The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.


    The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.



    The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life

    You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What Is it nothing to be happy Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long Never in his life will he be so busy again.

    There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, is it good in itself In the second, Can it be easily put into practice.

    As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather serve with their money than with their persons, the State is not far from its fall

    Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies, and maintain us in everlasting concord... All ran towards their chains believing that they were securing their liberty, for although they had reason enough to discern the advantages of a civil order, they did not have the experience enough to foresee the dangers.

    While sanctions would be aimed at coercing Iran to abandon its nuclear testing program, the world is reliant on Iran continuing to export crude oil into the global markets in order to keep prices from rising, which is a point that Iranian officials have been quick to make.


    Great men never make bad use of their superiority they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

    Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

    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.


    Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.




    A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

    The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.




    The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.


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