Quotes by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which....

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for....

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and....

Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing....

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those....

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil....

I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death,....