Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

If reason makes the man, feeling guides him.

The soul withstands sharp pains much better than prolonged sadness.

The kind of happiness I need is less doing what I want than not doing what I don't want.

A good father is worth a hundred teachers.

I know no greater enemy of man than he who is a friend to everyone.

It is always more valuable to have the respect than the admiration of people.

The man who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the most years, but the one who has experienced life the most.

The youth is the time to study wisdom; old age, the time to practice it.

Injuries are the excuses of those who are at fault.

To be an adult is to be alone.

No one can be happy if they do not appreciate themselves.

The equality of wealth should consist in no citizen being so opulent that they can buy another, and none so poor that they are compelled to sell themselves.