Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau French political philosopher (1712 - 1778)


Jean Jacques Rousseau -
- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau - Emile, 1762
- The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Jean Jacques Rousseau -
- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract, 1762
- The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Jean Jacques Rousseau -
- God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
- Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau -
- As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau -
- He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.