Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau