Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, She I love is far away.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Let us not forget what befits our present state in the pursuit of vain fancies. Mankind has its place in the sequence of things; childhood has its place in the sequence of human life; the man must be treated as a man and the child as a child. Give each his place, and keep him there. Control human passions according to man's nature; that is all we can do for his welfare. The rest depends on external forces, which are beyond our control.

Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.