Tag: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau