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

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau