Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By doing good we become good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau