The best quotes from Jean Jacques Rousseau with comments and analyzes

The best quotes from Jean Jacques Rousseau, with the page number of the quotes, the chapter where the quotes are located. There is also the possibility to write commentaries / analyzes of the quotes accessible by all other users.

Jean Jacques Rousseau has written masterpieces, and we have chosen his best quotes. These quotes are taken from the following books:

- The Confessions, JJ Rousseau

- Emile or Education, JJ Rousseau

- Julie or the New Héloïse, JJ Rousseau

- The Reveries of the solitary walker, JJ Rousseau

- From the social contract, JJ Rousseau

- Speech on the origin and foundations of inequality among men, JJ Rousseau

Among the quotes available, there are several themes. For example, there are love quotes, motivational quotes, quotes about women, quotes about men, about society, etc.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born June 28, 1712 in Geneva, and died July 2, 1778 in Ermenonville, is a French-speaking Geneva writer, philosopher and musician. Orphan of a very young mother whose life is marked by wandering. If his books and letters have been very successful since 1749, they also put him in conflict with the Catholic Church and Geneva, which forces him to change his residence frequently and contributes to his feeling of persecution. After his death, his body was transferred to the Panthéon in Paris in 1794.

I don't understand today how I had the stupidity to answer him and get angry, instead of laughing in his face for any answer.

The money we have is the instrument of freedom, the money we hunt down is that of servitude.

I have always believed that one could not take such a keen interest in Heloise without having this sixth sense, this moral sense, with which so few hearts are endowed, and without which no one would be able to hear mine. I love freedom; I abhor embarrassment, pain, subjugation. As long as the money I have in my purse lasts, it ensures my independence. Beauty is quickly worn out by possession; at the end of six weeks, she is nothing more for the possessor, but her dangers last as long as she.

We can shine by the finery, but we please only by the person. Be a happy lover, but respectful; obtain everything from love without demanding anything from duty, and may the least favors never be rights for you, but graces. The abuse of books kills science. Believing to know what one has read, one believes oneself dispensed from learning it. Too much reading only serves to make presumptuous ignorant people.

Any literate girl will remain a girl all her life when there are only sane men on the earth. There are only noisy fools; wise women do not cause a sensation. The example! The example! without that we never succeed in anything with children. I can only imagine a more pleasant way of traveling than going on horseback; it is to go on foot. We leave at our moment, we stop at our will, we do as much and as little exercise as we want.

What then is a virtuous man? He is the one who knows how to conquer his affections; for then he follows his reason, his conscience; he is doing his duty; he keeps himself in order, and nothing can keep him from it. What is forbidden to us by conscience is not to be tempted, but to allow ourselves to be overcome by temptations.

My child, there is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without a fight.

I have already noticed that refusals of showiness and annoyance are common to almost all females, even among animals, and even when they are more willing to surrender; one must never have observed their merry-go-round to deny that.

The first and most important quality of a woman is gentleness.

To love the peaceful and domestic life, one must know it; you must have felt its sweetness from childhood.

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