71 Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, paly and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

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

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.