Quotes by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject....

When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going."....

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary....

The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live,....

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine,"....

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present....

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

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official....

The truth brings no man a fortune.