To live is not to breathe; it is to act. Jean-Jacques Rousseau View this quote
Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The general will is always right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The great secret of education is to use exercise of mind and body as relaxation one to the other. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher
June 28th, 1712 - July 2nd, 1778
