Jean Jacques Rousseau Quote

I have always believed that the good was nothing but the beautiful put into action.

You will never be friars if you are not first acolytes.

It is very difficult to subject to obedience one who does not seek to command.

Man suffers few evils, except those which he himself attracts through the abuse of his faculties.

Remorse dulls in prosperity and sharpens in bad times.

The money that one has is an instrument of freedom, the money that one seeks is an instrument of servitude.

My greatest misfortune has always been not being able to resist flattery.

I prefer to be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Childhood has its own ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling; there is nothing more foolish than trying to replace them with our own.

Wherever you see moderation without sadness, harmony without slavery, abundance without extravagance, confidently declare; it is a fortunate being who rules here.

It is not enough for a wife to be faithful, it is necessary for her husband, her friends, and her neighbors to believe in her fidelity.