Quotes by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one....

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite....

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth....

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not....

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge....

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person,....

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.....

An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle;....