Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Insults, Those, Employed, Argument
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Guilty, Innocence, Whoever, Ashamed
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.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Law, Death Penalty, Carried, Believer
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Suicide, Own, Been, Throws
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religious, Rascals, Believers
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Imagination, Reality, World, Boundless
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth, Mode, Combinations, Falsehood
I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I Am, Still, Remained, Many Respects
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom, May, Maxim, Recovered
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.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Gift, Reason, Foolish
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Defeat, Happens, Either, Affliction
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Gardening, Alone, Plants, Weed
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.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Most Important, Here, Squander
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Aim, Own, I Write, Essays
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Obedience, Due, Does, Powers
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money, Seed, Million, Guinea
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evils, Our, Ourselves, Flow
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Person, Lived, Most, Richest
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Think, Living, Too, Nobly
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Faith, Souls, Individuals, Base
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Explain, Exist, Shared, Philosophers
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.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reading, Young, Intercourse, Sedentary
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Take, His, Ceases
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
May, Prejudices, Prefer, Reflects
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pride, Vanity, English, French
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thankful, Expect, Which, Ought
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Learn, Will, Which, Ought
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Die, Human Body, Born, Politic
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Waste, How, Profession, Order
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
United, Seldom, Unnatural, Minority
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Only, Which, Evils, Experienced
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Will, Always, Take, Custom
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Well, Bodies, Affections, Flux
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Election, Think, English, Members
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.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Will, Before, Set, Precedent
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature, Never, Deceives, Deceive
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Bank, Cook, Good Digestion, Account
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Great, Find, Than, Greater
A feeble body weakens the mind.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fitness, Mind, Feeble, Weakens
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modesty, Begins, Although, Evil
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Impossible, Grow, Nations, Older
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adversity, Sleeps, Remorse
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Preservation, Own, His, Risk
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thought, Misfortunes, Having, Fellows
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Performance, Making, Most, Faithful
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Natural, Over, His, Fellow
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fame, Often, Unwholesome, Breath
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heroes, Carriage, Known, Generally
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reason, Conceal, Vice, Likes
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man, Born, Chains, Everywhere
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death, Image, Absolute, Leads
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
War, Always, Combat, Virtue
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.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, Regret, Pleasure, Follows
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Born, Over, Human Being, Speak
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience, Fruit, Sweet, Bitter
God made me and broke the mold.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Me, Made, Mold, Broke
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Famous, Heroes, How, Lived
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Enjoyment, Always, Felt, Said
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Give, Sciences, Taste
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Forget, Fruits, Belong, Land
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Childhood, Reason, Sleep
I only see clearly what I remember.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remember, I Remember, See, Clearly
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Natural, Act, However, Talent
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Brainy, Know, Talkers
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I Am, Better, May, Least
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good, Know, Bad, Fortune
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing, Only, Books, Teach
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Will, See, Always, Good
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