Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

To 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.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.