Tag: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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God made me and broke the mold.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau