All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Childhood is the sleep of reason.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

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

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

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

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

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 Quote

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote