23 Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.