“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
Famous
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
DeathAll Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
Knowledge“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
War“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
Knowledge“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.”
Age“Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.”
Alone“The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.”
Imagination“Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.”
Nature“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
Women“We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”
Education“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
Great“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
Truth“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Happiness“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
Money“Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.”
Education“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
Death“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.”
Nature“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
Wisdom“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
Men“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
Death