Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

20 Famous Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau
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“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
Money Quotes
“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.”
Education Quotes
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
Knowledge Quotes
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
Virtue Quotes
“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.”
Conscience Quotes
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
Heroism Quotes
“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
Promises Quotes
“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.”
Birth Quotes
“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
Body Quotes
“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
Custom Quotes
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
Gratitude Quotes
“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.”
Heart-quotes Quotes
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
Liberty Quotes
“This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.”
Literature Quotes
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Patience Quotes
“We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.”
Pity Quotes
“I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.”
Suffering Quotes
“Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.”
Taste Quotes
“A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.”
Vanity Quotes
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
Virtue Quotes