Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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  Tags in Greater, Find

• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• 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

• 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.

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• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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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

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Richest, Lived

• 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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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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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