Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• 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.

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• I only see clearly what I remember.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• I may be no better, but at least I am different.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

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• 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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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

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• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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• God made me and broke the mold.

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

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• Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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• 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?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• 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.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (88)

Birth:	28th June, 1712
Death:	2nd July, 1778
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a Swiss-born French philosopher, novelist and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought. He wrote several books include: Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (essay), Discourse on Inequality, Julie, or the New Heloise (novel), Emile, or On Education (novel), The Social Contract, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and Confessions (autobiography).

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