02c. 1745 ADNothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
03c. 1745 ADOur affections, as well as our bodies, are in perpetual flux.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
06c. 1745 ADTake from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard, and his desire for knowledge ceases.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
08c. 1745 ADThe being whose strength exceeds its necessities is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
09c. 1745 ADThe empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
10c. 1745 ADThe want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
11c. 1745 ADThe way in which we form our ideas gives character to our minds.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
12c. 1745 ADThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference alone that all the evils arise which render us really unhappy.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
13c. 1745 ADThere is a period of life when our backward movements are steps in advance.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
14c. 1745 ADTo endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
16c. 1745 ADTo write a good love-letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
18c. 1745 ADWe may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
19c. 1745 ADWe ought not to teach children the sciences, but to give them a taste for them.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
20c. 1745 ADWoman's dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and her pleasure, in the welfare of her family.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
24c. 1745 ADA man who means to keep his promises can't afford to make many.Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote ↗
