Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

“Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil”

“The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil”

“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”

“If the French were really intelligent, theyd speak English”

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

“Heres to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of lifes problems.”

“It was very important to be here. Its a continuation of life,”

“Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.”

“The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

“We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced”

“At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever”

“Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies, and maintain us in everlasting concord... All ran towards their chains believing that they were securing their liberty, for although they had reason enough to discern the advantages of a civil order, they did not have the experience enough to foresee the dangers.”

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

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