71 Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau

L’homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

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

Learning is borrowed knowledge; genius is knowledge innate.

The truth brings no man a fortune.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.

The desire to be better understood has been extinguished from my heart.