Famous JeanJacques Rousseau Quotes

  • Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people… – JeanJacques Rousseau

    But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people…– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. – JeanJacques Rousseau

    Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • She was dull, unattractive, couldn’t tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her – JeanJacques Rousseau

    She was dull, unattractive, couldn’t tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her– JeanJacques Rousseau

  • A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty – JeanJacques Rousseau

    A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty– JeanJacques Rousseau