Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau