01c. 1745 ADDays of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,— Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
02c. 1745 ADIf the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
03c. 1745 ADIt is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
04c. 1745 ADThe mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
05c. 1745 ADEverything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
06c. 1745 ADWe pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
07c. 1745 ADI think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
08c. 1745 ADA blue-stocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
09c. 1745 ADAccent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
10c. 1745 ADAll our evils are imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
11c. 1745 ADBy dint of dining out, I run the risk of dying by starvation at home.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
12c. 1745 ADConscience is the voice of the soul; the passions, of the body.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
13c. 1745 ADEverything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
14c. 1745 ADEverything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
15c. 1745 ADExcept pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
16c. 1745 ADGeneral abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
17c. 1745 ADGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
18c. 1745 ADHe is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
19c. 1745 ADHe who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
20c. 1745 ADHow many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day!Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
21c. 1745 ADInterest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
22c. 1745 ADIt is from the difference we feel between the finitude of fact and the infinitude of fantasy that all the evils spring which torment humanity.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
23c. 1745 ADKings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that the best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people; but the maxim, unhappily, is laughed at in court.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
24c. 1745 ADKnowledge is most surely engraved on brains well prepared for it.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
