Jean-Jacques Rousseau

However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have always said and felt that real enjoyment was not to be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I long remained a child, and in many respects I am one still.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One can buy anything with money except morality.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau