Quotes
Quotes - Rousseau
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
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.
A feeble body weakens the mind.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne se decrit point.]
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la verite.]
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
